Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sooner did the officer place a hand on his shoulder than the drink in our hero came up for the fourth time. The policeman, as a matter of routine, asked him if he had been drinking. "No," he said, "I always get sick when I see an officer...
...campaign to unionize the Ford Motor Co., the U.A.W. published a small volume entitled The Flivver King; A Story Of Ford-America, announced an edition of 200,000 to sell at 25? each. Its author: California visionary Upton Sinclair, who wrote The Flivver King ". . . because I am sick of seeing lies enthroned and ruling the world." A novelized biography of Henry Ford, The Flivver King contains no startling new facts, presents several little-known, lively anecdotes. Sample: When Automan Ford was in the midst of his Jew-baiting campaign, he selected Cineman William Fox as a victim. Cineman Fox promptly...
...stole her one day, took her to Frankfurt to live in rich Herr Sesemann's house. After the snow and goats it was dismal doing lessons with invalid Klara Sesemann. (Marcia Mae Jones). Klara's mean governess, pointing her starchy cap at Sesemann, wanted Klara to stay sick, but Heidi's Christmas present to Herr Sesemann was the sight of Klara walking. The climax of the story concerns the somewhat frenzied efforts of Grandfather Kramer to get Heidi back, while the governess is trying to sell her to the gypsies. Since no Temple picture is complete without...
...violent free-verse narratives and black-diamond lyrics in Tamar, Roan Stallion, The Women at Point Sur, Cawdor, et al. Jeffers' latest book, Such Counsels You Gave to Me, is predominantly in his prophetic vein. Its title-poem is a fast-moving narrative of a student's sick return from premedical school to the farm of his swinish father and mother. In an atmosphere supercharged with nervous prostration, sadism, fornication, drunkenness, adultery and lack of funds the young student, at his mother's instigation poisons his father. Maternal incest and suicide are thereafter overwhelmingly indicated, but Author...
Football at Harvard came into its own on Saturday. Although it seems entirely superfluous to point this out after everyone who has followed the football team knows that Harvard now need never again smile apologetically when the gridiron sport is mentioned, though everyone gets slightly sick at talk of a moral victory, nevertheless it would be carrying indifference several steps too far to overlook what did happen in the Baltimore Municipal Stadium...