Word: invalids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Nethersole, far from cashing in on this priceless publicity, closed Sapho and went to bed an invalid. She never forgave the U. S. After War broke out, she joined the British Red Cross and began building a reputation of another kind. She became a crusader for Public Health, working up to a learned monograph on Milk Production & Distribution in Relation to Nutrition & Disease and calling her Hampstead retreat the Vale of Health. For all this her Commandership was last week a just reward...
...muted, and in which an occasional tentative note of concern and passion is apparent between the lines. Most of Peggy Bacon's poems and pictures are impressions of city life, ranging from a glimpse of a laborer asleep in a subway to a literary party, from a professional invalid who needs "a wrap, a steak, a toddy and a kick!" to a celebrity who seems "so small beneath her crown!" A contrast between a farmer's "quilted hills" and a desolate city ruin suggests the type of life Peggy Bacon opposes to that which she satirizes. One surprisingly...
When this explanation was not readily forthcoming, she undertook the defense. "Regina in tonight's play would never have stayed in that gloomy house to take care of an invalid under any conditions. She was too full of the joy of life to allow herself to be cooped by with as invalid...
...Congress has . . . flagrantly violated the requirements of due process of law under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution in that many of the Act's provisions are grossly arbitrary, unreasonable and capricious. . . ." Like most important measures, the Public Utility Act carries a "separability" clause, which provides that invalidation of one section of an act shall not affect the rest. Said Judge Coleman: "The invalid provisions of the [Public Utility] Act ... are so multifarious and so intimately and repeatedly interwoven throughout the Act as to render them incapable of separation from such parts of the Act, if any, as otherwise...
...future Duchess of Gloucester is a very careful driver. She is not fond of speed and seldom travels at more than 30 miles an hour; this being one of the reasons why her semi-invalid father, the Duke of Buccleuch, prefers her as a driver to any other member of his family. Another keen motorist in the family is Lord George Scott, the Duke's youngest son, who is often seen driving along the Border roads in a 20-h.p. Armstrong Siddeley...