Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fine that the country has a woman at its head as vitally interested in almost as many public movements as her husband; to reveal Mrs. Roosevelt, either as publicity-glutton or genuine, warm-hearted woman, in hundreds of little acts of graciousness and trouble-taking- visiting a sick White House correspondent at the hospital, taking for an automobile ride a state policeman hurt on duty, going to see her son's divorced wife and their baby (to whom she did not take a present because, "I don't believe in giving presents to babies who already have everything...
...knocked down by Gordon Butler, Actor Steele's manager, onetime footballer. Miss O'Neil indignantly denied a report that she had stopped the fight by smashing a chair over Steele's head. Cartoonist Arno sulked in seclusion at first, then barked: "I'm getting sick and tired of little so-and-so's like Steele and Vanderbilt running to the newspapers with stories that they chased me with pistols and knocked me down, which neither ever...
Most notable conflict of principle is that which exists between the President and nearly all of his chief fiscal officers. At the Treasury, there is no Secretary; William Hartman Woodin continues sick. Acting Secretary Acheson carries on under obvious strain while rubber-dollar professors get the ear of the President. Banker Bruere, appointed to co-ordinate credit activities, is, in one commentator's phrase, "outstared" by huge-framed Jesse Jones...
That economically and politically speaking, the world is very sick, even professors now admit; from every side come invocations of cure-alls and magic panaceas. Not the least bewildered by this year-long shower of ideological bonbons is the college man, who of all people should be attempting to view the situation with practical and theoretical clearness. To help him do this, New York University has begun a course of lectures, given once a week, on some topic of world economics, politics, or social problems...
...they go to the dance. All right, I said. So I made a big supper, and when they come already they drank a lot. Then they put whiskey in the wine. My God, yes. I said to Fontan, 'On va etre malade!' 'Oui,' il dit. Then these girls were sick, nice girls, too, all-right girls. They were sick right at the table. Fontan tried to take them by the arm and show them where they could be sick all right in the cabinet, but the fellows said no, they were all right there at the table...