Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week the demonstration took the same emotional turn as the scene in Vienna 108 years ago Toscanini had given a great concert, perhaps the greatest he has ever given. But more, the audience had not seen & heard him for weeks. He had been sick (TIME Dec. 21). His conducting arm had failed him. He had had to cut short his season go back to Italy for treatments. The rumor that he might never come back had never quite been downed, yet he had come back, traveled 4,500 mi. from Italy to help unemployed...
...corridors they marched him, down & up stairs, in & out of rooms, all night long. Then they put him in a wheel chair. Howard Edwards sighed with relief, began to doze. The wheel chair performed a series of jolts, jerks, starts and stops, almost spilling Howard Edwards out. "I'm sick!" cried Howard Edwards. "If I die, I die." The orderlies, unmoved, made him walk again...
...This country is sick and tired of listening to political campaign orators who tell us what is the matter with us. Few, if any, of them know what the cure is. ... It is a perfectly easy thing to say we must restore the purchasing power of the farmer. Fine! Of course we must. But how are we going to do it? . . . Exception to this [program of public works] was recently taken by a prominent Democrat on the theory that it is a stopgap. Who ever said it was anything else? It is at least better than nothing and infinitely better...
...older brothers hang up their trousers at night to keep the press, when the man in G-32 borrows a car and goes to Wellesley, when the debutante reads poetry, when the moon is a soft golden cartwheel, and every breeze a zephyr. It's when every man is sick of four walls and ceiling; the time when the last Victorian wrote that "man he must go with a woman which women cannot understand," and Tennyson asked, "Ah, why should life all labor be, why should we only toil, the roof and crown of things?" Spring is when seniors...
Disappointed in men, Lucy gives all her love to God. As an aged novice in a Belgian monastery she forces herself to put up with disciplinary mortifications for her new love's sake. But her already wearied body cannot stand the strain. Sick, she is sent back to England. When her son. through no fault of his own, fails to meet her train, she waits for him on the station platform until she falls. After a brief agony in a hospital, Death pays her wages in full. Beginning, as in Hatter's Castle, with a cloud no bigger than...