Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Warren Gamaliel Harding, U. S. President under whose nose graft & corruption flourished, lay monumentally entombed at Marion, Ohio. Albert Bacon Fall, released last month from the New Mexico State Penitentiary, was a sick, broken old man at his Three Rivers (N. Mex.) ranch. He is sitting up a few hours each...
...cook for Norman Foster because she is working in an office, in itself a bad sign. When Norman Foster has lost his job and Loretta Young has had her salary raised, their situation grows acute. Foster takes to drink. Loretta Young goes on a business trip. Finally, Foster falls sick and his wife comes home to nurse...
...controls, managed to right the plane just before it would have crashed. Then he climbed the ship to a safe altitude, practiced with the controls for 15 or 20 min.. made a safe landing on Rockwell Field. When help arrived Corporal Torner was giving first aid to the sick pilot...
Miss Thompson did not go back. She had lived 40 years in a simmering green hell where, even the encyclopedias said, a European could not survive a year's visit. She had built tight houses for her black charges. She had tended the sick, cracked an occasional black male pate for wife-beating, tried to teach the Tulasus tidiness and something about her God. In return, the Tulasus called barren Miss Thompson "Mother...
...called from bed to diagnose a belly ache, is kept from bed by a broken arm. He still gets about four hours of sleep a night and in the mornings the knives sometimes tremble in his hands. He smokes too many cigarettes. This again is not heroic. People are sick and people are poor and other people take care of them. This, too, is stinking and sweaty. And yet in the town shopmen call him "Doc" and slip an extra carton of cigarettes in his box of provisions. In mud time when the Ford slips into a pot hole...