Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eyes. Broken in health when he left public office, Lawyer Poincaré could not return to practice at the bar. Doctors' fees and hospital bills sapped the small capital he had managed to save. For the past two years he has written magazine articles when not too sick to write. Last summer, by a ghastly oversight the Chamber of Deputies, which had intended to vote a pension to M. Poincaré, adjourned without passing the bill...
Away from Fort Saavedra there were abundant signs last week that both countries were heartily sick of their undeclared war. For months an international commission of delegates from the U. S., Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Uruguay has been dangling a peace plan before the combatants. Chief point was that each side should retire ten miles, leaving a 20-mi. neutral strip while final peace negotiations went on. Bolivia would not agree to this at first while she was advancing. Paraguay pooh-poohed the idea while she was capturing one jungle fort after another. Last week with both sides stalemated at Fort...
...tale of Hawthorne, it was a fantasy of a scarecrow who could be made to come to life and who could be kept alive by continually smoking a pipe. James Savery was ideally fitted for the part of the scarecrow in every respect except one; he was made deathly sick by smoking. The ever-resourceful technicians, never thwarted, finally evolved the scheme of filling Savery's pipe with punk. In the excitement of the performance, Savery would invariably inhale once or twice, instead of blowing at his punk. The scarecrow who had to smoke to live, almost died from smoking...
...kept himself fairly strictly to the matter in hand, has apparently almost sublimated his sense of pun-as may be seen from such an example as ''treble yell." Some readers will be enraged, as usual, by his occasional genteel vulgarity-in speaking of one about to be sick as "going to be ill"; of a woman's being able to "really settle down in the sedentary comfort for which women are so charmingly cushioned...
...probable infection. A relatively new anesthetic, Avertin, was used; it is easy on the heart; the operation lasted some 45 min. All other patients were moved from the third floor of the wing where Mr. Ford lay. The fact behind a fond Ford boast, "I have never been sick a day in my life," was counted on to speed his recovery. Henry Ford's last ailment: a sprained back in 1927, suffered when the Ford car he was driving through Dearborn was forced off the road, down an embankment...