Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Things do not go well with Cricket and Blue. Three months after the wedding she miscarries the rich stranger's child. Blue hides her shame, but Cricket is sick of the settlement, its people and its life. Even her love for Blue cannot hold her; she runs off to New York, joins Man Jay in Harlem. When, later, they return to persuade Blue to give her a divorce, Blue cannot understand what it is all about. After a fight in which Cricket defends Blue against Man Jay, Blue lets his love go. He will see her again, no more...
Next day Col. Miller changed his mind, went to the courthouse at Newkirk, posted $16,000 to keep the peace. "He's a sick man," said Prosecutor Bruce Potter. The Colonel's lawyers prepared to appeal to President Hoover's Reconstruction Finance Corporation to save...
...policy gives particular significance to another insurance gesture, to which Dr. Wilbur referred last week. School teachers and certain other staid individuals of regular habits in Dallas, Texas each pay 50? a month to Baylor Hospital. For that premium the hospital takes care of them when they get sick. The unusual significance, apart from the novelty of the plan, is that the foremost doctor on Baylor Hospital staff is Edward Henry Gary, who next May becomes president...
...their hired girl, who, failing Fergus, had gone a-loving elsewhere. Peter, who keeps a goat's eye on her himself, persuades Fergus that she has been the cause of their father's death, that she must be killed. On the day of the murder Peter feigns sick. Fergus loves Mary, but, under his brother's patriarchal command, he takes her out and drowns her. Convicted of murder, he is sentenced to penal servitude for life...
...Sick abed last week lay a fourth Peace Man, Baron Shidehara, who as Japanese Foreign Minister tried to keep the Japanese Army from rushing into Manchuria. That Baron Shidehara was poisoned is Tokyo rumor, may be untrue...