Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps George V cheered up his discouraged subject. On leaving His Majesty, the Prime Minister launched into a new series of high-pressure conferences. David Lloyd George, sick and known to oppose an immediate election, was hunted out by Scot MacDonald in his very bedroom. As conviction grew that the Prime Minister had made up his mind to an election, something snapped in the Seaham Labor Party machine. Two Laborite groups broke away, wired the occupant of No. 10 Downing St. that he could stand as their candidate...
...them. When Matthias accuses her, Natalie is honest with him, tells him she has always loved Timberlake. They try to patch things up; Timberlake goes away. One day after a quarrel Natalie is missing. Matthias finds her body down in the woods, where Garth died. Months later, when Timberlake, sick and prematurely old appears again, Matthias is glad to see him, hopes he will stay for good. But one day Timberlake. too, wanders down into the woods, is brought back dying. Left utterly alone, his faith and hope all gone, Matthias sits and broods on suicide. At the last minute...
...everybody. Pauline tries to break off her affair with Julian's father when she has to take her own invalid parent to Switzerland. Prying grown-ups catch Julian and Hildegarde taking a perfectly innocent sun bath after a swim. Hilclegarde's mother whisks her abroad; Julian in sick despair drives his rickety old motorbike over a cliff, tries to make it look like an accident. That clears the air; everything goes better. Julian is not killed; Hildegarde is rushed back to his hospital bedside; Pauline writes Julian's father that she cannot live without...
...shoots ducks and quail in the autumn, fishes in the summer, sings in the Episcopal choir, practices law. The Stevens have a small son. Curly-headed Commander Stevens distinguished himself by energetic leadership of his State's department. Elected unanimously, he pledged to help the organization's sick, needy, disabled and orphaned. Although "personally a Dry from a Dry-voting State." Commander Stevens had this to say about Prohibition: "One of the best places to feel the pulse of the people is in a Pullman smoking room. I have yet to sit in on a smoker conversation where...
...Jack Tar everywhere took his 10% cut with glum obedience, showed no further symptoms of gas. ¶ First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Austen Chamberlain announced that Admiral Sir Michael Hodges, Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet, had requested to be relieved because of illness (he was on sick leave during the mutiny); that the King had appointed Vice Admiral Sir John Kelly to succeed...