Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dropping back mile after mile before the relentless Italian advance, Haile Selassie took refuge for a day or two at Magdala, burned by the British in 1868, scene of the suicide of the Emperor's predecessor, Theodore. Magdala's peasants were heartily sick of the war. Many a glum-faced, kinky-polled native spat in the dust as the little imperial party passed. Some crept up to the imperial quarters. A volley of shots crashed through the windows. The Emperor's valet and his chamberlain, both of whom were standing talking to their master, dropped dead...
...mountain hideaway on muleback to pack his personal belongings at the old palace. At the first bursts of rifle fire on the outskirts of town, he scuttled back to the hills. Correspondent Steer and the British major waited no longer. Loading four Seventh Day Adventist missionaries and a sick Belgian officer into the back of their truck, they lit out for Addis Ababa. Just as they left town the hillsides behind them flashed like a thousand fireflies with blazing rifles. Aeroplane-directed Galla warriors marched into deserted Dessye, followed by Fascist legions two days later...
...last winter, collapsed on its owners last week, thus entombing one of Canada's most distinguished surgeons and a rising young Toronto lawyer. Trapped with them was one of their employes. Modest, moon-faced Dr. David Edwin Robertson, 52, surgeon-in-chief of Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, and his lawyer friend, gangling, bespectacled Herman Russell Magill, 30, last February took a flyer by leasing the Moose River Gold Mine. Last week Dr. Robertson & partner were ready to take the mine's first gold brick to the mint. Night before...
...case may be to child psychologists of certain schools and persons judicious enough to distrust the customary vaporings of cinema fan magazines, Hollywood chatter columnists and professional pressagents, Shirley Temple is actually a peewee paragon who not only obeys her mother, likes her work, rarely cries, is never sick and keeps her dresses clean but even likes raw carrots, eats spinach with enthusiasm and expresses active relish for the taste of castor...
...volume's most useful chapter was on "Choosing a Doctor." Dr. Newcomer's advice: Let a stranger sick in a big city apply to the Academy of Medicine or similar institution for the name of an able doctor who probably knows how to treat the illness and will not charge more than the patient can afford. Elsewhere sick strangers "must rely upon hospitals" or upon the county medical society...