Word: invalidism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Start in Life: Invalid. Career: A descendant of Inventor Robert Fulton, he comes from one of New England's oldest and wealthiest families. From fashionable Groton he went to Harvard where he was a Phi Beta Kappa. He contracted tuberculosis in his last year (1910), had to be shipped to New Mexico on a stretcher. There he began a study of local archaeology which was to make him better acquainted with the State than most of its natives. His lungs mended rapidly. In 1912 he bought the capital's only newspaper, the Santa Fe New Mexican, and promptly...
...this standard. Norma Shearer lends sentiment and charm to the portrayal of Elizabeth Barrett, which adapts itself rather well to the mid-Victorian era, but as usual her emotions are more shimmering than deep. Her bursting good-health is a bit upsetting when applied to a helpless invalid. Frederick March, as her suitor, Robert Browning, succeeds in winning her hand by is a rather doubtful Browning. But few would expect Mr. March to do well in a part which concerns an intellectual; he is miscast...
...Administrator of Public Works has no Constitutional authority to aid the defendants [i.e. Concordia] in the construction of the project. And if it were intended by Congress to promote that character of construction work under the Industrial Recovery Act, then such purpose impinges upon Constitutional inhibitions and is invalid...
...autocratic policies last week, flayed them for "seeing with the eyes of a poorly or falsely informed foreign world." Next day, in a suit to test Reichsbischof Müller's January decree on which he based his Protestant dictatorship, the Berlin High Court declared: "The decree undoubtedly is invalid, and thus everything is null and void that the Reichsbischof has done on the strength of the powers he has given to himself by a crass infraction...
Once with 1,500 men Morgan attacked a Federal garrison of 2,500, got clean away with 1,800 prisoners, some much-needed socks and boots. For this exploit he was made a brigadier-general. Morgan's first wife, an invalid, died in the third month of the war. His second marriage, in 1863, was the social event of the year; Confederate President Jefferson Davis attended, and General Leonidas Polk donned his cast-off bishop's robes to perform the ceremony. That summer Morgan made his most famed raid, a dash into Indiana and Ohio that frightened the inhabitants...