Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back country, patting babies and cattle, drinking many a glass of cow's milk and goat's milk. But the one thing a Mexican President needs to rule his fermenting country is abounding, virile health. Last week, surrounded by enemies, President Cardenas to his disgust felt sick as a dog. Newshawks were told he had Malta fever, so named because British Navy men stationed in the Mediterranean once got it from the milk of Maltese goats...
...neglect any phase or style of dancing which even remotely contributed to the evolution of the art as it is currently known. He begins with primitive tribes which danced instinctively to celebrate birth, adolescence, fertility, danced when they needed rain, danced for hunting, planting, warring, danced over their sick, danced over their dead. Dancing was a species of worship as it exhibited itself in ancient Egypt. With the great Greek tragedies dancing entered the theatre, developed until it followed a play's mood as surely as the choral chanting. Dancing in Greece was greatly respected for its fluent beauty...
...tongued, miserly sadist, is a splendid portrait. It is, however, only a preface to Bligh after the mutiny. Bligh on duty and in action, cursing his loyal sailors from the stern of the open boat, riding the tiller in mountainous seas, slitting the neck of a seabird for a sick sailor and finally, as the gulls rise out of the sea mist, croaking through dried lips the one word, "Timor...
...society, politics and literature of his time. Don Juan is not great poetry. "It is...meant to be a little quietly facetious upon everything...a playful satire, with as little poetry as could be helped." But the Vagabond likes it: "...when the old world grows dull, And we are sick of its hack sounds and sights..." 'tis good to turn to tales of adventure and the like. 'Tis good to go for an hour or so and learn more about...
Tonus. Dr. Yandell Henderson of Yale was too sick at New Haven to present personally the most significant lecture of the series, an explanation of why people feel "all in" after operations, injuries, anesthesia and severe illness. Dr. Henderson sent his younger colleague, Dr. Howard Wilcox Haggard, to read the prepared lecture...