Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also penniless. For the past four months her two children have been sup ported entirely by their old nurse in a tiny apartment. Every week the children are told that papa has gone to the U. S., that maman is sick in a hospital...
Hero, One of the Northwest's great heroes is husky, hearty Frank Dorbandt. He has rushed serum to many a stricken Eskimo, carried antitoxin to many an ailing Indian, flown many a sick white to far-off hospitals. In 1930 he risked his life in an air search for his onetime flying mate, the late Carl Ben Eielson. In 1932 he made headlines by landing Father Bernard Hubbard inside the smoking volcano of Aniakchak. A longtime fur trader, Hero Dorbandt lately was accused by the Federal Government of smuggling pelts into the U. S. Last month in Seattle...
...flew from Nanking to Peiping," said His Holiness. "After that experience I would rather spend many months going overland to Lhasa than attempt to go by air." On his one & only flight, according to the airplane's crew, His Holiness the Panchen Lama was "grievously and continuously air sick." Skeptics doubted last week whether the Panchen Lama was seriously starting for Tibet, expected him to settle down in Inner Mongolia with the funds he has collected...
...which was not corsetless at all. It was the age of the girdle. Millions of stout women kept on buying corsets. The slimmer ones took to the girdle. When the word corset became unpopular, corset-makers shrewdly substituted the "foundation garment." At the beginning of Depression the Paris couturiers, sick of the tube dress, came to their rescue by raising the waistline, dropping the skirt. "Foundation garments" became a practical necessity. The corset-makers frankly admitted for the first time that women had not one bust but two breasts. Even then corsets were relatively clumsy affairs with elastic threads woven...
Some of the heaviest of smokers, during the experiments, occasionally grew deathly sick, at times fainted. Drs. Wright and Moffat reasoned that ordinarily those smokers took only a few puffs of a cigaret. before throwing it away, whereas in the experiments, they continued smoking until almost all the cigaret was gone. Concluded Drs. Wright and Moffat...