Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...child actor is whether or not the child actor is "unspoiled." Equally invariable is the fan magazine answer: No. Whether or not the Mauchs are unspoiled, time will tell. Tricking people about their identity, however, is by no means the only Mauch peccadillo. Two years ago, when Bobby was sick, the Mauch twins got a chemistry set. With it they have since compounded a mixture of ink and ketchup for making spots on bedspreads; an ink spot remover, for removing the spots; and a rotten egg extract, for harmlessly discommoding din ner guests at the Mauch apartment on Franklin Avenue...
...give oily nose drops to a struggling, rebellious infant." Dr. Bela Schick, child specialist on whom Dr. Rice called for an opinion, "prohibits the use of oils in the noses of infants." Dr. Charles Hendee Smith, another specialist, advised: "Nose drops should not be used in feeble, marantic [emaciated], sick or young infants, certainly not before the age of three months...
...York Legislature last week appropriated $400,000 to buy a year's supply of pneumonia serum to be given away to sick citizens who do not live in New York City. The city is expected to spend $600,000 for its inhabitants during the next year...
After this lavish concern for sick rooms, the legislators projected their imaginations into delivery rooms and heeded an exhortation of Assemblyman Emerson David Fite, 63, professor of political science in Yassar College, a Republican neighbor of President Roosevelt in Dutchess County, a believer in "government by cooperation," father of two young women. Professor Fite wants every woman in New York State, rich or poor, married or not, to receive $75 for the birth of a child provided that: 1) she registers for the bonus before the fourth month of her pregnancy, 2) submits to pre-natal care, 3) pays...
...Spanish Revolution of 1931 which his writing and influence did much to bring about, he was a deputy to the new Republic's first Cortes. At the outbreak of the Franco rebellion last summer, Ortega added his signature to a proclamation of loyalty to the Government. Later, a sick man, he left his war-torn country for neutral France. The essays in his book were all written before the Spanish civil war began, but this historian's-eye-view reveals an even grimmer prospect than appears in current headlines and newsreels...