Word: invalidism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Luck, his pleasant appearance and his expertness in diseases of the stomach kept young Mr. Dawson from the bowler hat and satchel of the obscure English doctor. Minnie Ethel Yarrow, youngest daughter of Sir Alfred Fernandez Yarrow, the potent shipbuilder, was a chronic invalid. A doctor was always at her side. One day the regular man suddenly became ill. Dr. Dawson was handy, was summoned. He cured the girl. They fell in love, married...
Thornton Cooke, president of Kansas City's Columbia National Bank, awoke on a Pullman in Manhattan's Grand Central Station to find that a switch engine had gone somewhere with the train valet and with his only suit. Banker Cooke ordered an invalid's chair, swaddled himself in Pullman Co. blankets, had himself scooted through the depot to the Hotel Biltmore...
...President Hoover last week entertained 500 disabled veterans from neighboring Government hospitals on the back lawn of the White House. The grounds were filled with stretchers and wheelchairs.. Men hobbled about on crutches. Six Negro veterans of the Civil War wandered through the white crowd. One war invalid fainted, was carried away in an ambulance...
...victory; on the latter, defeat. Rumania's new King Carol approved the telephone monopoly granted the I. T. & T. by Parliament. The monopoly agreement is drawn up along the lines of the I. T. & T. Spanish concession. In China, on the other hand, the National Government last week termed invalid the franchise recently acquired by I. T. & T. to operate the telephone system in the International Settlement and the French Concession in Shanghai. The Chinese Ministry of Communications wants to take over these systems for the Government. "The Union of Chinese Telephone Subscribers" planned a telephone boycott...
...Author. Jean Cocteau lives in Paris where he likes to play at being an habitual invalid, draw a little, used to mix drinks for himself and friends in his own saloon. Le Boeuf sur le Toit. Not long ago, his fancy led him to embrace Catholicism. He is also fond of having his ascetic hands photographed as he lies in bed. Other works: Grand Ecart, Thomas the Impostor, A Call to Order...