Word: invaliding
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...legality of his orders because U. S. courts have implied that that Act, while not specifically repealed, expired in 1921 with the passage of the Knox peace resolution. Even loyal Senator Glass exclaimed in the Senate debate: "Some of us are disposed to think these proclamations have been invalid and unconstitutional...
Glass- Any layman knows the amendment is utterly invalid...
...Virginia ground simultaneously. Attacks of indigestion sometimes cause him to faint. His secretary tries to suppress publication of such incidents. A Swanson fainting spell that got into print once cost the Senator some $25,000 in additional campaign expenses to convince his constituents he was not an invalid. Admirals expect him to give them a free hand running the Navy...
Before Morning (by Edna & Edward P. Riley; Albert Bannister & John G. Norman, producers) is a mystery play which, although it refrains from bringing the murderer on the stage until Act III, does mystify. It has to do with an unemployed but practical actress who, to support herself and invalid child, is about to marry a rich gentleman from Detroit. At the news of this betrothal, an elderly banker, one of the actress's sweethearts, faints dead away. Rallying round, still other of her gentlemen friends prepare to remove the banker to a more discreet resting place, a somewhat shady...
When Christopher kisses Emily she falls in love with him and is promptly expelled from the house by her father. When she learns that men betray she rushes off to drown herself, but Invalid Lilian makes a huge last effort and saves her, at the cost of her own life. Old Mr. Chilvester takes Emily back again. Her true Chilvester blood coming out at last, Emily stands shoulder to shoulder with her parent while he fights a hopelessly losing struggle against the combined forces of society. His efforts sap the old man; merciful death comes for him before he realizes...