Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife came upstairs also and threw herself on the bed and called me twice. I was so far gone that I did not hear her come upstairs nor did I hear her call me. When she dragged herself to the bathroom door and announced that she too was so sick that she could hardly stand I realized that we were both being overcome by the poison. Luckily we were still able to open windows, doors and shut off the heater...
...undergraduate would rather be locked in an igloo for the winter with a Cantab than a Princetonian for all his smoothness (a term which, by the way, has lost some of its former snap). He might not understand the "indifference" of the Harvard man, but he would get goddam sick and tired of hearing about the nifty third sax in Cab Casa Loma's orchestra as set forth by the Tiger...
...sick individual is utterly unable to leave his home, a district nurse or doctor will visit him. Otherwise, every patient must go to his neighborhood dispensary where he is given a thorough medical inspection. If he needs special attention, he is sent to a central polyclinic or to a general or special hospital. Astonishing is ''the vast provision of convalescent home and sanatorium accommodation, probably larger in proportion to population than in any other civilized country." Health officials are making especially strenuous efforts to "liquidate"' tuberculosis and venereal disease. In all regions are special institutions...
...charity ward of a Los Angeles hospital last week lay a wrinkled little man with sparse grey hair combed straight back. The habitual frightened look of the sick poor dropped from his wizened face as newshawks approached. "Hell!" snapped the little man. "There's nothing wrong with me. Be out of here in a week." But reporters knew that, perhaps for the last time, they were seeing and hearing James Todhunter ("Tod") Sloan, great jockey, famed rounder, spender, one-time friend of millionaires and occasional toast of royalty...
...best people, and intimately too. Why I heard the troubles and woos of half the prominent men in Massachusetts. Some of them even come to me for advice and I gladly give it to them when I can. Their questions range all the way from what to feed a sick parrot, to what to tell their frantic wives when they arrive home...