Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Immediate Effects. London and New York received word of this great step with comparative calm. There were no bank runs, no rush to the stores to convert money in goods for hoarding. Bankers filled the papers with the sort of optimistic statements that doctors make to very sick patients...
...When he lost his job Maggie May became a Prohibition lecturer. She enthralled bigger & bigger crowds, telling about the degeneration of her father. Not to be outdone. Kip got a job as Prohibition agent, visited many a Manhattan speakeasy to collect evidence. At first sipping liquor made him sick, then he got used to it. Once he got drunk and liked it very much. Maggie May was horrified and made him get a different job. Kip always accepted bribes, then arrested the briber, turned in the money to the office. He was also very successful at betraying dishonest colleagues...
...unfortunate statement," bitterly remarked New York City's Department of Hospitals. New York hospitals and clinics have been overcrowded with 25% more patients than normal during full employment times. The staffs hear of people who "cannot afford to be sick," who defer treatment, operations. For the municipal hospitals alone the budget requires $25,326,000, an enforced increase over last year of $5,800,000. Surgeon-General Cummings' report, complained the New Yorkers, "excludes epidemics and, covering only 13 unmentioned States, deals only in mortalities...
Hence last week a vast, leisurely round-up of the diseased San Carlos strays was under way. Every water hole on the reservation had been fenced in. Sick, thirsty herds limped from one enclosure to another, found some where they could enter and drink. Their refreshment was their death. Men were there to kill every one. to ship them to factories where the hides would be salvaged, the carcasses milled into plant-nutrifying meal, the hooves made into glue...
...Doudou" himself, stocky, sleek-haired, grinning. No one would be more pleased to see Lebrix beaten in a race. The two men had been enemies ever since their spectacular co-flight around the world in 1927, at the end of which Lebrix bitterly declared that he ''was sick of being a valet to Coste." But Coste himself was not going to run in this race. Instead he had loaned his plane (also a gift of Perfumer Coty) to his friend Paul Codos...