Word: sicked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Aicadre's asthma clinic at Deux Estaings crowd many sufferers, hypochondriacal and real. The doctor tells them flatly to help themselves?he has little use, though considerable pity, for human beings sick or well. Even Laure, his peasant-girl wife, finds him unapproachable. Only her maman, Madame Teterger, a closefisted harridan who runs the clinic and everybody in it, dares face him. When, over the extravagant construction of a new wing to the clinic, she reads him the riot act, he turns away in scorn, falls off the balcony to the cement ground floor...
...June 10 issue of the paper consisted of but one page with one brief paragraph on it, the story of Billy Moore's death, ending: "The entire valley is sick with sadness. . . . You will all understand why the regular edition of this paper is not being published this week...
...Hunt. To the cumulative troubles of sick William Fox, hounded onetime film tycoon, two new law suits were added last week. Fox Theatres sued him and six of his friends & kin for $5,000,000 last fortnight (TIME, July 4). Fox Film Corp, last week sued to recover possibly $10,000,000 from Filman Fox, Jack G. Leo, a former vice president, and partners in M. J. ("Mike") Meehan's brokerage house, which handled many a Fox pool. A sister-in-law, Mrs. Aaron Fox, came forward too, with a $250,000 suit in behalf of her children...
...issued by H. K. Fly Co., publisher of old Plain Talk, is named Brass Tacks. The other is National Spotlight, published by George T. Delacorte Jr., edited by muckraking Walter W. Liggett, onetime editor of Plain Talk. Apparently on the theory that the reading public is like a sick man who enjoys talk about his ailments, both magazines dwell lingeringly upon the nation's ills...
...diabetes, dizziness and a bad cold (TIME, June 27). Though refusing to release him from its subpoena, Senator Peter Norbeck's Banking & Currency Committee finally decided not to quiz him until hearings on stock exchange practices are resumed next autumn (see col. 1). Cineman Fox promptly rose from his sick bed, checked...