Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last winter world headlines told of Italian hospital ships unloading thousands of Italian sick in secret sick dumps on the island of Rhodes, of countless Italian crosses on the plains of Eritrea. Sir Aldo smiled. Last week, arriving in Addis Ababa, he made his health report on the Italo-Ethiopian...
...island; they had apparently died of starvation and thirst. With the disturbers of their peace gone. Dore and Dr. Ritter heaved a sigh of relief. But the tale was not yet complete. One night, in spite of their vegetarian predilections, they dined on a chicken that had been acting sick. In a few hours Dr. Ritter was dead. Dore buried him. got herself aboard the next visiting yacht, went back to Germany for good...
...published Asylum, a vivid description of his seven-month stay in a sanitarium where he was cured of alcoholism. Last week, hearing that Author Seabrook had returned to the sanitarium, a newshawk telephoned his Rhinebeck, N. Y. farm, got an explosive denial. Bawled Author Seabrook: "I'm getting sick of that rumor! Every time anyone sees a tough drunk they say it's me, and I'm sore...
Among certain pious and ingrained orthodox Jews exists a belief that rabbis, closer to God than ordinary people, may obtain spiritual benefits on behalf of the sick or the troubled. Such Jews also believe that benefit may be derived from performing a good deed or mitzvah, such as giving money to charity. In Brooklyn, N. Y. last week one Anna Seigel went to the police with a story of how she had paid $200 as a mitzvah for her paralyzed daughter and was now wondering if she had been swindled. Upon investigation of Mrs. Seigel's complaint the Brooklyn...
...Ethiopia," shrilled Haile Selassie, "will fight until the last soldier and the last inch! Let every man who is not wounded or sick take arms and enough food to last five days and march north to fight the invader...