Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jersey said, 'I've served my time. If you don't kill me you're yellow.' I told him I must be yellow then because I was not going to kill him. I asked him if he was sick or anything and he said, 'Not a thing wrong.' I told him I was going to have to put him in the sweatbox. Jersey said to me, 'I'm going home.' I said, 'No you're not.' He said, 'Well, I'm going to hell then...
...Oriental pace tires, which it does particularly in the beginning of Act III, Actress Alia Nazimova as OLan commands respectful attention. It is her play. She it is who makes Wang Lung (Claude Rains) buy his first bit of land. Although Wang grows rich and soft as she grows sick and old, it is her death which brings Wang back to the good earth of his and her fore fathers...
Boss Curry wanted Walker again, who was speeding home on the Europa. But New Yorkers were utterly sick of "Jimmy." His nomination, it was agreed, would be the weakest Tammany could make. Edward Joseph Flynn, the Bronx boss, wanted his man Joseph Vincent ("Holy Joe") McKee kept in City Hall but Boss Curry flatly refused. Mayor McKee was shocking Tammany's sensibilities by trying to save the city money and cutting salaries. As hotel waiters brought in an early dinner a compromise was struck, to wit, both Walker and McKee would be dropped and a third man picked...
Servants in the small Hotel Lincoln, in Paris,* were mildly surprised one evening last week to see the short, white-mustached old Americain who had been stopping at the hotel with his sick wife for several weeks, making his way furtively out of the house through the dim-lit service entrance. With him was his alert, dark-haired son, who had just arrived from the U. S. The son carried a small handbag. In the street they hailed a taxi, vanished into the night...
After two days he was released on $50,000 bail. Sick and tired, he returned to the boarding house in Orillia. The outcome seemed certain, and he showed that he knew it. Waving a thin hand at reporters he called. "I'll see you in Chicago...