Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...belief that they are horses and that he has made a fortune betting on them-Oiwin gets drunk. In the bar of the Lavillere Hotel he gives a casual race-tip to three starving horse-players-Charlie (Allen Jenkins), Patsy (Sam Levene) and Frankie (Teddy Hart). He is being sick offstage during those moments when the selections in his small black book, heavily backed by his new friends, come romping home. What happens after his return from the men's room is a four-cornered chase. Oiwin is trying to write 67 Mother's Day greeting-card orders...
...highly improbable coincidence is woven so elaborately and so ingeniously that terrified suspense bangs on the turn of each ironical development. Ghastly irony is this drama's most lethal weapon, and it is called into play so effectively and so frequently that the unhappy spectator is harrowed sick. A forlorn halfwit, for example, driven out of his warm shelter by the gangster villain, picks up a cigarette butt discarded by that villain, and by lighting it unconsciously gives a signal that draws fire from the villain's underling and thereby kills the villain...
Suspicion finally centered on ice cream served Monday night. This was the only dish eaten by all those who became sick. Ice cream comes in units containing about 150 servings and, according to Dr. Bock, if the ice cream was slightly contaminated between a half and a third of those eating it would be expected to get sick. About one out of two people are immune to such forms of poisoning...
When it was discovered that several commuter students were included among those who were sick, the Union food was definitely assigned as the cause since Dudley Hall is supplied from the Union. But, since no ice cream had been saved from the batch served Monday night at the Union, and since University officials thought that it was unlikely that a single unit of ice cream would be divided between the Union and Dudley Hall, and since, also, they were uncertain that ice cream had been served at lunch at Dudley, suspicion was also cast upon the breaded veal cutlets served...
...heart and lungs contract slightly. He also discovered that a clout on the spine may reduce a disabling bulge in the aorta. On the other hand, Abrams claimed without acceptable evidence that the human body was an electrochemical machine which produced certain vibrations when healthy, certain other vibrations when sick. He claimed that he could diagnose specific diseases by means of a machine which resembled a radio receiver. By means of this "Oscilloclast" he claimed that he could also cure diseases, detect lies, measure love, determine parentage...