Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...encounter a varied set of answers to tests calculated to ascertain the mental ages of the children by means of having them explain various pictures. One, portraying a loving couple with supplies, being paddled down a stream in a canoe was explained as a kidnaping, a picnic, a couple sick of life and about to jump off at Niagara, and just a picture of a boy friend and a girl friend. Loyalty to the family likeness upset one test when it was found that a little girl of fire was insisting that the homely woman in the test was best...
...contract for a Mississippi bridge at New Orleans has been signed. The R. F. C. last week lent $13,000,000 to build them. Charity hospitalization in New Orleans has been increased from 1,800 to 3,800 patients per day and bus excursions arranged to carry the rural sick in town. Insane patients, taken out of locked beds and handcuffs, have been treated with modern methods. As Governor, Senator Long doubled the capacity of the State cotton warehouse at New Orleans, effected a cut from $1.60 to 26¢ in the insurance rate on public dock property...
Blonde Venus (Paramount) presents a new excuse for Marlene Dietrich to play a bad woman. Excuse: sick husband. The picture graphs her degeneration. Excuse: mother-love. Toward the end, having left husband & child behind, she rises fast, her motto being "Down to Gehenna or up to the throne, he travels fastest who travels alone." She completes the cycle in the arms of husband & child...
...Brownlow Wickliffe, pet-named June. A luscious copper-brunette, she fired Sherrill's blood, let him buy her presents, but for a long time would not give him what he wanted. When she became his mistress, he soon found her a hard one. Business troubles, his wife, a sick child, even golf had to go by the board when she summoned him. As her toils tightened Sherrill began to hate her, contemplated first suicide, then murder. He came close to committing both. But a lucky series of breaks gave him his self-respect again, gave him the strength...
...doubleheader will take place this Saturday as has been rumored lately. The two Gleasons, Casey, and Crocker are the only men left on the sick list at the present time. Barrows at tackle and Crane and Gundlach at guards continued to show improvement yesterday. The lineups: Team A: Nazro, l.e.; Hardy, l.t.; Esterly, l.g.; Hallowell, c.; Gundlach, r.g.; Bancroft, r.t.; Hageman, r.e.; Wells, q.; Nevin, f.b.; Dean, r.h.; Crickard, l.h. Team B: Cassedy, l.e.; Littlefield, l.t.; Crane, l.g.; Cassale, c.; Rogers, r.g.; Francisco, r.t.; Bartol, r.e.; Whitney, q.; Pescosolido, l.h.; Grady, r.h.; Litman, f.b. Team C: Walcott, l.e.; Barrows...