Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time there was no Clarence Darrow, no highly paid alienist, no maudlin press, no bribed jury, nor oratorical defense lawyers, and no harassing of bereaved relatives on the witness stand. Thurmond and Holmes were too gulity to be accorded the delightful interlude called American criminal justice. The mob was sick of a system that convicts 299 out of 300 law abiding citizens accused of violating traffic regulations and then refuses to convict 79 out of 30 accused murderers...
...Hearkened in blank amazement as Laborite Morgan Jones, who had gone to the House distraught from the sick bed of his dying daughter, hurled wildly at British Nobel Peaceman Sir Austen Chamberlain the charge that "By his speeches he encouraged the high-handed policy of Japan in Manchuria...
...laboratory at the University of Alabama's medical school, Professor Allan Walker Blair, 33, has discovered that the "black widow" spider's poison kills rats and mice, makes guinea pigs sick, does not bother dogs and cats. He has long wondered how it would affect human beings. Last week he found...
...Quite a Job." Last week was a typical one in the life of the fast-moving First Lady. Monday morning she arose shortly after 7. She "has never had a sick day in her life," at 49 continues her morning exercises. She had a swim with the President, breakfasted at 8, answered her mail which arrives by the basketful. After her press conference at 11, she presided at a small luncheon party. In the afternoon she received the Persian Minister & Wife, entertained women executives of the State and Treasury departments at tea. Dinner guests were Publisher & Mrs. Frank E. Gannett...
...lower middle-class psychology is the scene in which the architect tries to get the servant out of the room before Nazimova wakes up, while the girl insists on staying to explain that she had not known her lover was Nazimova's husband. The knowledge nearly kills the sick woman but the girl goes away satisfied with herself. All this is finally geared to prove that all men are cads when cast as girls' dream heroes...