Word: invalidism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young woman deposed herself to be Fru Else Wille Bang, 32, not domiciled with her husband since seven months after her marriage, for a period (after the separation) a student of singing in Paris, now of no occupation. She wished to impeach herself for the murder of her invalid mother, the Baroness von Dueben, and at the same time arrange for exculpation...
...promptly resigned his minor post in the Government (Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade) in protest. Miss Megan Lloyd George M. P. (loyal daughter) began her campaign for re-election with this shrill cry: "I shall fight on as a Liberal?under the same leader?Lloyd George!" Invalid Lloyd George himself called Labor Leader Henderson to his bedside at Churt. They talked for an hour, presumably about joining forces, have long been expected...
...they agonize together over a world that was not molded very near to their hearts' desire. For a while it looks as though everything would go badly for everybody. Pauline tries to break off her affair with Julian's father when she has to take her own invalid parent to Switzerland. Prying grown-ups catch Julian and Hildegarde taking a perfectly innocent sun bath after a swim. Hilclegarde's mother whisks her abroad; Julian in sick despair drives his rickety old motorbike over a cliff, tries to make it look like an accident. That clears...
...successor, disturbed Filipino politicos who feared the next Governor General would be less friendly, more dictatorial. This fear prompted Sergio Osmena, president pro tem, of the Senate to declare: "Everybody knows of the continuation of Governor Davis in office at great sacrifice on his part. Because of the invalid condition of Mrs. Davis, the Governor feels the necessity of joining his family in Paris. We hope he will be able to accomplish his desire equally satisfactorily by taking a temporary leave to which he has a right after two years of intense and active service in the islands...
...Long an invalid, retired in 1916 from his 22-year presidency and three-year chancellorship, 80-year-old Dr. David Starr Jordan, chancellor emeritus, had no active part in Stanford's latter-day development. Yet when the Stanford trustees meet this week, they and Stanford's Grand Old Man will all know that the important business before the meeting, a major milestone in Stanford's history, not only rests upon the foundations of Stanford as Dr. Jordan built it but derives from a conception of Stanford's destiny which Dr. Jordan long ago passed on to his successors for execution...