Word: invaliding
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...some consequence. Said Father Parsons, editor of the Roman Catholic Weekly America, speaking over the radio at Manhattan: "Let it be remembered that the Rota has been sitting on cases such as this since 1323. For over 900 years persons having grounds for believing that their marriages are invalid have appeared before it, producing their evidence . . . and the Rota after weighing this testimony renders its opinion. . . . Moreover, let it be remembered, the decision of the Rota was a declaration and was not a decree. ... I am profoundly puzzled by Biship Manning's attitude. . . . The persons involved, though of Bishop...
...Majesty sat, instead, almost day and night at the bedside of her husband. Five physicians were in constant attendance. The Emperor Yoshihito, a chronic mental and physical invalid, was struggling with a minor bronchial disorder which it was feared might complicate his other afflictions...
...teeth, with distressing results. He studied facial expressions of people in trains, of his children from infancy, of dogs, which always took to him. He would painstakingly count tens of thousands of plant seeds under his microscope. He devoted years and two fat tomes to barnacles. An invalid, he had to systematize his work rigorously. He trusted few reports save of his own eyes...
...upon himself left him unmoved. Sociably inclined, he had to contend with his fondness for people to get his work done. His love and respect for his children was immense. A keen sportsman in youth, he could hardly bear to dissect pigeons later. The favorite game of his gentle, invalid age is referred to in a letter: "Now the tally with my wife in backgammon stands thus: she, poor creature, has won only 2,490 games while I have won, hurrah, hurrah, 2.795 games!" A pious country Woman, on hearing that he would go to hell for his beliefs, replied...
Died. Mrs. M. D. Hornsby, mother of Rogers Hornsby, manager and second baseman of the St. Louis Cardinals; in Austin, Tex., after having been an invalid for eleven years. Manager Hornsby, obeying his mother's dying request, proceeded to play in the world...