Word: invalidism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With him did not sail French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand. During the week all Paris was agog with rumors that M. Raymond Poincare. invalid though he is, has decided to strain every nerve to prevent M. Briand from succeeding M. Doumergue as President...
...circulation growth at no increased page-rate and got thereby many an advertiser. Forthwith he cut Liberty's page-size, lost in goodwill what he had made in profit. James O'Shaughnessy, expert on advertising, was called in (TIME, July 29, 1929), but could not revive the invalid. Advertising makes a magazine pay; Liberty did not pay. It ailed, grew thinner, was printed on cheaper paper...
High ran the hopes of the Wets last December when U. S. District Court Judge William Clark, at Newark, N. J., handed down a decision that the 18th Amendment was invalid. Judge Clark, in quashing an indictment brought against one William Sprague for transporting a truck load of beer, had contended that the 18th Amendment should have been ratified by State conventions (representing the People) rather than by State legislatures (TIME, Dec. 29). Last week it was the Drys' turn for jubilance. Acting for the U. S. Supreme Court, speaking before a courtroom crowded but orderly, tall, bespectacled Associate...
...withering poetess, Katharine Cornell turns in an extraordinarily delicate and restrained piece of acting. So convincing was her drinking of a detested pitcher of porter, so stirring her defense of a browbeaten sister, so moving her portrayal of an invalid who passionately wished but mortally feared to be a wife, that first night spectators yelled "Bravo!" as the final curtain fell.* The supporting cast is capable: Jo Mielziner has mounted the piece as picturesquely as a John Leech drawing. A small Cocker spaniel as Flush behaves admirably...
...Left-Wing mother. As it was - She was at school in Switzerland when her father telegraphed her about her mother's serious illness. She found her mother paralyzed, unconscious, her face so twisted she was almost unrecognizable. Rachel's elder sister was married, almost an invalid herself; her younger sister Per-dita was terrified of sickness, and would not even go in her mother's room. So Rachel had to manage things. She went at it as if she were leading the charge of the Light Brigade. She not only kept house but helped nurse her mother...