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...office in an attitude of extreme weakness and helplessness and with the most pitiful facial expression that can be imagined. When questioned as to her complaint, she stated whiningly: 'I have an auriculo-valvular disease,' a 'diagnosis' which, in conjunction with the attending parental apprehensions, had made a chronic invalid of the child...
...concerning wages and hours (TIME, May 13 et ante). It was for the Supreme Court to decide finally whether the Schechters were guilty of breaking a real law or whether NRA was guilty of having regulated U. S. business for nearly two years under a false law, unconstitutional and invalid...
...refer to the late and unlamented Turkish Empire as the "sick man of Europe." Today Europe reports that she has another sick man. His death will be much more in the nature of tragedy for a watching world than was the unheralded demise of the Turkish Empire. This wasted invalid, the League of Nations, at whose bedside the faithful Marianno stands with a melancholy smile and a hypodermic needle, is that child born so auspiciously in 1919 with racking labor pains to Woodrow Wilson, Clemenceau, and Lloyd George, that same child whose bronchial wheezings on the shore of Lake Geneva...
...museum, the Corcoran Gallery, went Washington society last week to see its 14th biennial exhibition of U. S. paintings. It was a big show, 428 canvases on the line. Judges included such artists as Academician Jonas Lie, Henry Lee McFee, Richard E. Miller. Seasoned art critics' only criticism, invalid so far as Washington was concerned, was that all the most effective pictures had been seen time & again in Manhattan exhibitions...
...with him in the autumn of 1929. On the road Actor Harrison lives with friends he made years ago while on Chautauqua tours, or in Y. M. C. A.'s. He has not squandered a liberal salary. A large part of it goes to the support of an invalid wife, whom he married 40 years ago with his friend, the late Negro Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, as best man. A son, who struggles with a jazz band, and a daughter, who has proved an indifferent performer in Negro musical shows, also require "de Lawd's'' financial...