Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gave away several hundred wooden legs*-he was sincerely mourned. The triumph of his career as boss came in 1923 when he put honest William Emmett Dever into Chicago's mayorship. In 1926, Brennan "bet his bossdom against a seat in the U. S. Senate that Illinois is sick of Prohibition"-and lost to Senator-eject Frank L. Smith...
Legger Dwyer, who had served a year and six months of his term. The reason: a very sick man was Legger Dwyer. After paying the government a $10,000 fine, he entrained for Manhattan...
Orinoco. When a Piarros Indian (the tribe, head hunters, live near the upper waters of the Orinoco River) becomes sick, his fellows scoop him a trench and there they stretch him with food and water. If he recovers, he may amble after the others. They will not have gone far, they are lazy. If he dies . . . earth takes back its matter very quickly along the Orinoco. Some 1,500 years ago, the ancestors of the Piarros potted their dead in urns. That was, and to some extent is, a Mongolian practice. Most anthropologists declare that a Mongolian culture is discernible...
...been left behind some days previously (at his own request) to die. Tass stated that Captain Zappi was wearing, when rescued, Dr. Malmgren's fur boots and coat, and two other pairs of fur boots and two other coats-whereas Zappi's comrade, Captain Mariano, seemed sick, weak, and wore no fur boots...
...Manhattan, Horace F. Poor, 50, president of the Garfield National Bank, crawled out of a sick bed and wobbled to an open window. Once there, he made as if to leap out, down to the street four floors below him. As he did so, Ella Randolph, his nurse, scuttled across the room to stop him. Just as Horace Poor toppled over, she grabbed his ankles and held them so that he hung down head first, looking into the hot crowded street and waving his arms...