Word: invaliding
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...Also, a bill (H. R. 3,589) granting an increase of pension to Sarah Bottle; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions...
...since ceased to perform as active judge in questions arising in undergraduate activities. Surely this sixth clause is a heritage from another era, one in which the liberal policies now practised in the University as regards undergraduate control were yet to be put in force. As such it is invalid and in revising the Constitution its obsoleteness should have been taken into consideration...
When the S. S. George Washington hove into New York Harbor three weeks ago, an old lady sat bundled in an invalid's chair on board and an ambulance was waiting on the pier. Because she was indisposed and because she was Mrs. Lily Anheuser Busch, 85-year-old widow of the late Brewer Adolphus Busch of St. Louis, the old lady had "the courtesy of the port." Comptroller-of-the-Port Arthur F. Forran had furnished her with an "expedite" permit, so that she might escape the tedium of waiting while inspectors inspected 34 pieces of luggage belonging...
Before long, Mrs. Elliot became an invalid. She would call Emily into her room and the two of them would discuss Mrs. Fletcher. Emily was too weak to oppose her mother's economies that took, among other things, the form of selling the furniture and buying clothes at second-hand sales. Mrs. Elliot would push herself up in bed and stare at the pale, frightened child. "She clutched her granddaughter's wrist and shook her arm 'Don't you understand? You must resist her. . . . Why, if I were your age, knowing her as I do, knowing...
...cold rooms, life trickled on in Avarice House. Emily would walk through the halls counting the furniture that would be hers, when her mother died. Mrs. Fletcher would tighten her lips and help the cook to scrub the floors and bake the bread. The old invalid would lie upstairs, her mind full of a thin despair and a narrow, terrible enmity. At last, one afternoon, Emily came in to find her grandmother dead. Whether her mother had found the medicine which Mrs. Elliot had expected her to provide, could not be told. Perhaps she had discovered some drug to still...