Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Homelier, Thomas A. Edison said: "He is getting sick...
...Probably his worst trait," the Dowager Queen Marie says, "is that he loves to tease dogs and cats. He has been bitten several times by dogs, notably last summer, when the palace doctors gave him so much Pasteur treatment that he was sick for a fortnight...
...Monday night recently, the guard assigned to the miniature portraits room of the Metropolitan took sick, was sent home to recover. The next morning, it was discovered that a glass case had been jimmied, that six priceless portraits painted on ivory framed with diamond-studded gold had been niched. As usual, detectives were perplexed as to the motive of the crime. If the sneaks had coveted the miniatures for their $10,000 ivory, gold and diamond value, a search might profitably be conducted through the pawnshops. If the infinitely more valuable artistic qualities had been coveted, it must have been...
...Miss Conrad is an employee of the meat market at which Mrs. Coolidge buys provisions. And when Lodge attendants answer the telephone and hear that "Schuster's Meat Market" is talking, they know that the call should be put through. With Miss Ellen Riley,. White House housekeeper, still on sick leave, Mrs. Coolidge has been doing the presidential family shopping...
...side wearing a blanket woven of human hair. From the first, his cooking was dubious. Then Captain Lawry and Mate Mortimer felt strangely ill. They were swelling, swelling. They bloated all over to "twice natural size." Fortified with strychnine, Captain Lawry staggered forward to berate Codjo, whom he found, sick as himself, lying naked in a bunk conjuring with three little sticks, a voodoo curse on the ship...