Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chestertown, Md., when the ambulance could not be made to run, a hearse was sent to bring Negro Wilbur Stewart back from an Easton hospital. Hearing that a hearse had gone for him, the sick man's family arranged a funeral. The hearse drove up and out stepped Stewart, clad in a white hospital gown. Negroes dived out a second-story window, through a screen door. By dusk only a handful of the mourners had ventured back...
...summer home in Beverly Farms, Mass., "altogether too busy" with "international problems" to celebrate the occasion. To newshawks the mousy little man from Texas said: "President Wilson and I never broke. What made it seem so was the change wrought in Wilson after Paris. After Paris he was a sick man, a man in the hands of a bedroom circle. The bedroom circle kept him apart from me and kept me apart from him. My letters never reached him; no messages were sent...
Last spring crowds in a Munich railroad station threw flowers at a group of German climbers leaving to attempt the Mountain of Horror. The party was led by Willi Merkl, who had failed to reach the top two years before when his porters, mountain-sick and frightened, balked. This year pains were taken to find the hardiest and pluckiest hillmen obtainable. Last week came news of disaster...
...days ago, in Germany, events occurred which shocked the world. I don't know how they have affected you, but they made me sick?not figuratively, but physically and very actively sick...
Last December Jimmy Wedell made national news by flying a sick infant 1,400 mi. through fog and storm from Houston to Baltimore for an operation which saved her life (TIME, Jan. 8). Fortnight ago a windstorm wrecked his hangar, failed to damage the uncompleted plane with which he hoped to fly 450 m.p.h...