Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fourth Precinct desk sergeant's telephone tinkled. Those Negroes over on School Street, someone said, were at it again. It had been going on three months. Everyone else who lived around there was sick of it. A John Doe warrant was filled out and soon School Street was clanging with police patrols from six precincts. The police entered and found the old factory clean enough. There was a refectory with more than a dozen long tables and a kitchen whose iceboxes burst with pork chops, chickens, choice cuts of beef. There was a large nursery where some pickaninnies slept...
Jolson-My wife got sick when she saw Winchell. . . . That man's made a nervous wreck...
...effects of dinitrophenol have not been tried on sick people, because the San Francisco investigators have not yet probed all its pharmacological repercussions. Investigators Cutting and Tainter begged last week that, "for the present, dinitrophenol be used only as an experimental therapeutic procedure in carefully selected patients under close observation by the physician...
...taken into the O'Connell family's confidence. In Albany their word is law. They were going to get their boy back in their own way. Up to late last week they had not gotten him. Ransom asked: $250,000. Banker. The courtesy of a sick old gentleman, neither brewer nor swindler, resulted in his kidnapping at Alton, 111. one night last week. At 9 p. m., August Luer, 77, and his wife were preparing to retire when two men and a woman appeared at their door, said they wanted to communicate with one of the Luers...
...modern debacle gave to his doctrines. He fought in a desperate cause; indeed, in President Lowell's phrase "with the courage to proclaim unpopular opinions in troubled times." The heroic tenacity he showed in his life, as in his convictions, gave him strength to rise daily from his sick-bed to lecture throughout the last eight months, nor did he let his illness impair his amazing tolerance and accessibility. Now that death has swept away one of the strongest bulwarks against the rising tide of sentimentality, political immorality, literary quackery, and artistic affection, Harvard men can only hope that Professor...