Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conduct and secondly that son is not Hendrik Willem Jr. In fact a jr. in this family does not exist, my parents being neither of them unoriginal have never been at a loss to find brand new names for their offsprings and my older brother and I have gotten sick of seeing ourselves Hendrik-van-Loon-Jr.'ed so I hope you won't mind my putting this straight. My brother, in America, is Henry Bowditch van Loon and I am Willem Gerard van Loon. On the dancing stage I leave off the van Loon...
Opposition leaders were willing to help. Liberal David Lloyd George was still sick abed, but exact reports of what went on at the Labor councils were carried to his bedside. Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin left Aix-les-Bains, rushed back from vacation to confer mightily with Scot MacDonald...
Sound industries do not voluntarily seek government regulation. When it is forced upon them, as upon electric power, they buck and fight vigorously. Oil. lumber, shipping and agriculture, on the other hand, have begged and received government aid because they were economically sick. In the Interstate Commerce Commission the railroads have a protection against ruinous competition which they would not give up for anything. When it was making good money, the bituminous coal industry bridled angrily at the mere suggestion of Federal regulation...
...Cubans were still too sick to speak, but Boatman Carey was more communicative. He had taken his five passengers far out to sea in a speed boat, searching for a mysterious ship that was to carry them on to Havana. They never found it. After hours upon hours of tumbling about in a heavy fog, the retching Cubans cried that if they must die, they wanted to die on land. Two days later the schooner Harold put in loaded to the gunwales with more seasick conspirators, 52 of them this time, 39 Cubans, the rest Negro, Chinese, Mexican. Only...
Things might have been even worse were it not for the prompt arrest of Dr. Villana. Dr. Villana, a sinister figure who could only exist in a romantic novel or modern Spain, is a wandering Gypsy physician who has tramped the bleak hills of Andalusia for years healing the sick and preaching bloody revolution. He and his staff of conspirators were arrested last week just as they were planning a triumphal entrance into Seville. The tavern of the Brothers Cornelio, a notorious Syndicalist meeting place, was surrounded by artillery. Well-trained gunners blew the little bodega to bits with three...