Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime Marius' household pursues its usual temperamental tenor. The five disciples hate each other, scribble notes for their forthcoming biographies (they all know Marius is dying), try to maneuver the sick man into tête-à-tête walks. Lewis, "deeply insincere," has more than one earmark of J. Middleton Murry, one of Lawrence's biographers. Others are Robert, a timid soul; his wife Hilda, who married him because Marius suggested it but who nurses a platonic passion for the Master; Mark, a bully; Johnny, a poet who is not a gentleman and is very self...
...satisfied even with this, Adolf Hitler had the entire police force of Germany ordered last week to engage in the most active "Vote Ja!" propaganda, even among the German criminal classes, and on March 29 to see that every qualified voter makes his mark. The sick & aged are to be carried to the polls on stretchers...
...clinical experience shows gaps which Anthropologist Hooton believes anthropological methods might well help to fill in. "Medical science is nurtured in the fetid atmosphere of pathology and has no chance to breathe pure ozone in the congregation of mentes sanae in corporibus sanis. . . . Doctors are so preoccupied with the sick that they do not know the well and are forced to evolve the normal from their inner consciousness, as the German scholar evolved the camel...
...piteous way in which the heroine, after having been told by the hospital that her baby is dead, and having been spurned by her distracted husband, comes back to the wards with the threat that her husband is coming soon with a policeman, to force them to relinquish her sick child...
...shrewd Revolutionist Quinn this was just the beginning. Two months ago he demanded a constitutional convention to remove, once & for all, the "rotten borough" system. On the day the bill came up for vote, two Republicans were sick abed, three Democrats opposed it. Not to be caught napping a second time, Republicans dragged 69-year-old Senator Frank E. Payne from bed, stuck him on a couch in the Senate lounge, had a nurse prime his weak heart so that he could vote. Before Republicans or Democrats could charge each other with the old man's "murder," anxious relatives...