Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five minutes after the Senate made H. R. 17054 into law, the Veterans Bureau mailed out its first loan check at the new rate-$431.50 to a needy Baltimore veteran who wanted to have a sick son operated on. Lines quickly formed throughout the land before Veteran Bureau branches. Heading the Washington queue of loan applicants was Charles P. Ruby who got himself into the newspapers and in to breakfast with President Hoover by being first in the White House reception line on New Year's Day (TIME...
...Leon! Trotzky's history of the Russian Revolution . . . was to have been published April i and obviously he would not have quit work on it unless he was thoroughly incapacitated," said Mr. Trotzky's representative in Berlin. Few days later, despatches from Istanbul told that sick Leon Trotzky & wife were awakened 'by fire in their home on Prinkipo Island, near Istanbul, and narrowly escaped in their nightclothes. The home burned to the ground, with it all Trotzky's books and papers (including copies of. all the official documents which passed through his hands...
...choice of Melba, short for Melbourne, for a stage-name persisted all her life. She often harked, back to Australian scenes and sounds, the sudden rise of storms, the bright flash of parrots' wings, the cry of magpies at dawn. Friends say that she knew she was incurably sick this autumn, wanted to get home...
...famed Poetess Elizabeth Barrett Moulton-Barrett, but he has artfully achieved an absorbing picture of gloomy Victorian domesticity. Wisely the play focuses its attention on the family life of the poetess, her two sisters, her six vague but stereotyped brothers who come to pay her dutiful calls in her sick room, her strange, unnatural father. Poet Robert Browning's courtship of Elizabeth is depicted in brief, brilliantly contrasting interludes...
...something that sends shivers down the back and saps all the energy in the body. Did you ever see a hen with pip? Her wings are drooped, her feathers ruffled, her head hangs down . . . her cackle is gone, her eyes are watery. . . . She is sick all over...