Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summer villa at Castel Gandolfo, sick Pope Pius XI, instead of calling Cardinal Mundelein to order, received 150 German Catholic pilgrims, patted them on their spiritual backs. Speaking in German with a quavering voice he declared: "I am glad to see you, while at home there is being fought out a battle so unjust, so bitter and so inimical to conscience and religion. . . . The presence of you, dear children, here means that you wish to remain firm in your religion. . . . Tell your people that the Pope prays for them, daily, daily, daily...
...Comrade Miliutan, editor of a trade union magazine-all four of them prominent trade union officials-were arrested on charges of "malfeasance, Trotskyism and sabotage." The Council further charged the trade unions as a whole with neglecting their main duty, the social welfare of the worker-supervising sanatoriums, sick benefits, old age benefits.* A Stalin-inspired ultimatum thundered that the trade unions must be overhauled, converted into thoroughgoing "Schools of Communism...
Hard by the farm was Mrs. Irene Castle McLaughlin's dog haven, "Orphans of the Storm," where the famed pre-War dancer and style-setter yearly spends some $16,000 sheltering thousands of sick and homeless dogs. Thither hurried the passerby with the six sick Scotties. A veterinarian pronounced them too far gone for recovery, advised merciful death. But first it was necessary to get the permission of the owner, one Dorothy Whittle...
...didn't starve them," wept Mrs. Whittle. "They got a pound of meat a day. They are old, that's all. Just old and sick. I could nurse them back to health...
...money to the poor, and I did. Then He called on me to fast, but He didn't say why. The day after I started in, I took a little potato soup without any grease. That learned me my lesson. I nearly died, it made me so sick. That was just the Lord punishing me for my disobedience. . . . I started this fast at the call of the Lord, and I'll not stop until He tells...