Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Others thought it went across Narragansett Bay toward Block Island. Fanciful New Englanders said it might be the ghost of famed Moby Dick, returning to visit the region which he and Author Herman Melville put into literature. Whale-wise salts declared the creature was moping, as if it were sick...
...second stroke fell. How damnably timed they were! The time taken in handing the cane over to the next monitor and his run across the library was just enough for Colin to realize the sickness of the pain of the first blow without any of its sting wearing off. . . . Two more! How they could lay in! And only half. He began to feel sick...
...vote Senators were summoned from the stump and the sick bed. Democrats flayed the House for trying to dictate to the Senate, while Speaker Longworth and other potent Representatives stood along the chamber wall sombrely listening. First to a vote was the Debenture. Result: 43-10-41 in favor of recession. A dozen insurgent Republicans and six pro-tariff Democrats left their parties on this issue...
...history has a state equalled California's gain between Census counts. Census estimators figured that California has added two million people to its 3,426,861 of 1920. Three factors explain the gain: 1) industrial development including the cinema; 2) Asiatic trade; 3) good climate for sick or elderly citizens to enjoy years of leisure.* Sample of California's growth: Beverly Hills, picturesquely perched above Los Angeles, from 674 in 1920 to 17,428 in 1930, a gain of 2,485%. Some Beverly Hillers: Funnyman Will Rogers, Cinemactors Fairbanks, Barrymore, Gilbert, Mix, Lloyd, Cinemactresses Pickford, Davies. Cinemakers Laemmle, Mayer, Lasky...
Directly responsible for the Philippines as Secretary of War, Patrick Jay Hurley from his sick bed sent a letter to the Senate Committee on Insular Affairs opposing, in the name of the Hoover Administration, freedom for the Islands now or at a fixed future date as "disastrous alike to the ultimate interests of both the Filipino and American people...