Word: invalidism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perched on the edge of a sofa, Dr. Davenport told of her childhood as the daughter of a Russian prince, her study of dietetics at Heidelberg at the age of 81, her invalid husband (age, 67), and her eleven sons (ages, 73 to 93) who, she thinks, are now in Russia. Said she: "I want to go on another lecture tour. But I need a business manager. They had better not let me handle money because I give it away. I don't want it as long as I have my cigarets...
...children. Used as they were to married priests in the old country, the Ukrainians whom they shepherded saw nothing unusual about the status of the two fathers. But Mother Church did. In her ponderous, methodical way she discovered that the marriages, respectively 20 and 14 years old, were invalid. Fathers Shumsky and Sarmatiuk had broken the rules by marrying not before but after their ordinations...
...excellent. But it is indeed an unusual mind which can write this sort of drama for an evening's entertainment. The acting is so good that one cringes with rage at the doings of the mother who in her tantrums succeeds also in causing the death of her aged invalid mother. There is little to raise the play from the depths of morbid despair into which it falls. The comic relief provided by the grandmother comes at the wrong moments and the silly simperings of the giddy mother serve only to heighten the horrors of the household...
...Some $2,500,000 was spent to check the 539,541 valid registrations (528,005 votes were cast, of which 2,249 were invalid); to set up 860 voting booths in 83 Saar voting areas; to furnish free rail and bus transport within the Saar from voters' homes to the place where they resided when the Treaty of Versailles was signed; and in salaries to 860 neutral poll watchers who were paid about $65 each for their services on the voting day, cheap at the price since they included 360 stolid, super-meticulous Dutch burgomasters. The troops supplied...
...about the same as Norway's spring and the hot little Chaco war is very remote and unpopular. The Liberal Party runs the cities and opposes the war; the Genuine Republican Party holds the countrymen of the hot lowlands and wants war to the finish. Genuine Republicans made Invalid Daniel Salamanca President while the Liberal bosses were electing a man of their own vice president, a beet-nosed banker named José Luis Tejada Sorzano. Last month another presidential election was approaching. President Salamanca, who had already lost one son in the War, wanted to elect a Genuine Republican...