Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lazare Saminsky's Pueblo, a Moon Epic last week agreed that his "orchestral rhapsody'' fell short of the billing. Composer Saminsky had written it for Washington's National Symphony Orchestra, on a special commission from the League of Composers. He divided it into two parts: "Sick of the Snow, the Shia Seed'' and "Call of the Wind; Highward Ho." Into these movements he worked tribal tunes, war cries, corn & moon dances of Indians in the Southwest. Listeners enjoyed its orchestral color and primitive drummings, but disliked its lack of coherence...
Lazare Saminsky emigrated to the U. S. in 1920 because he was sick of "people flying at each other's throats." In 1923 he married young Lillian Morgan, a poet proud of her descent from the Colonial Cranes. Composer Saminsky was re-excited about the redskin when he saw The Covered Wagon and read Natalie Curtis' Indian translations. He planned to write Pueblo for several years, did so last summer...
Since Dictator Mussolini has solved the Roman Question, has established friendly relations between the Papacy and the Italian Royal Family, it became sick Pope Pius to make some gracious comment. Declared L'Osservatore Romano, semiofficial Vatican organ: "God has given his sign...
...suit for $1,500,000 was not taken seriously by the Tribune until the State Supreme Court, reviewing the embezzlement case, found Parker innocent in February 1934. Meanwhile, Harrison Parker was doing everything in his power to make the Tribune sick at the thought of him. Discovering that since 1873 the paper had paid no State capital stock tax (few Illinois corporations bother to). Harrison Parker filed suit as a citizen to compel the Tribune...
Inspectors from the Quarantine Station went aboard.* They took the ship's chief medical officer's word concerning the health of first and second-class passengers, examined the sick on those lists, carefully scrutinized every third-class passenger for sickness and lousiness, glanced over the cargo for abnormal evidences of rats. Only when the Quarantine Station men gave the word might the yellow flag be hauled down, anchor weighed, the ship set in motion to her dock. This sanitary permission to deal with people ashore maritime men call "pratique." Hereafter most passenger ships bound for New York...