Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...limburger sandwiches ("smeared thin"), 150 turkey sandwiches (white meat) to be delivered within six hours to Welfare Island's hospital prison, as well as a standing weekly order of 350 shrimp salads and 600 coleslaw salads. Delicatesseners Wolf and Wolitsky, their suspicions aroused on the ground that "sick people don't eat coleslaw," investigated, discovered that Miss Hanson had no connection with Welfare Island and no money, had her arrested for disorderly conduct...
...dancing during a fiesta with all the enjoyment and absorption of a business man playing golf. At Taos, a white woman, fascinated by literary legends of the noble redman, made him her lover. When winter came and his wife on the reservation had trouble with the sheep and a sick child, Tall Walker was glad to give up his easy life and return to the familiar hardships of home...
...Byrd wintering in tropical Tahiti, William Randolph Hearst as Ambassador to Soviet Russia and Huey Long in a friar's robe entering a monastery. To crack this page of mirth wide open it was captioned "NOT ON YOUR TINTYPE. Five highly unlikely historical situations by one who is sick of the same old headlines...
...stubbornly stuck to her story of innocence, finally declared, "Oh well, I might as well get it over with. Sure, I killed him. . . . Blanche didn't pay me a cent of the $500. ... I tried to get Harry Jung to help me cut up Ervin but he got sick at the sight of the blood. He was sitting in an automobile outside, scared half to death...
With Mrs. Smith firmly enthroned as No. 1 villainess, Mrs. Dunkel piously whimpered: "Evelyn did it all differently than she promised. When she told me how she cut him up, it just made me sick. The way we talked it over, Evelyn was to put Erv to sleep, strangle him and throw him in the lake." Headline: PAID FOR A NEAT "LAKE JOB," IS HER PLAINT...