Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge returned to Washington from Northampton, Mass. Her sick mother was better. . . . Governor and Mrs. Trumbull of Connecticut and Florence Trumbull, their daughter, were invited to the White House. Mrs. Trumbull was attending a D. A. R. convention. . . . Persons who think President Coolidge should fly with Col. Lindbergh (see LETTERS) commented upon the matter-of-factness with which Governor Trumbull announced that he would fly to Washington from Hartford. He used a new Wasp-motored Ox-12 plane, piloted by an aide...
...Last week, alarmed by reports that the Flood Control bill, which the Senate shoved through last fortnight, might cost the U. S. a billion or $1,500,000,000, the President sent for Chairman Martin B. Madden of the House Appropriations Committee, his Flood Control spokesman. Mr. Madden was sick abed but up he got and to the White House he went. When Mr. Madden emerged from the conference he said the President was "not very happy." He was convinced that the pending bill was a Treasury raid embracing "every proposal, like the creek that happens...
...Candidate Smith and his friends lamented an occurrence in Brooklyn. There, police were obliged to arrest Patrolman Vincent Glynn, 200-lb., 27-year-old son of Candidate Smith's sister, Mrs. Catherine Smith Glynn. It appeared that Nephew Glynn, on sick leave, had drawn his pistol in an alleged speakeasy and said: "How would you like to see what I can do with this?" He fired at the stove, wounded a man, fled to a vacant store, fumbled with his pistol, wounded himself...
...mouth to all sufferers repeatedly. The bacteriophage feeds on the living matter to which it is accustomed. Therefore the cultures in the wells ate up all the cholera organisms, purifying the drinking water; the cultures administered by mouth destroyed all the cholera germs in the intestines, healing the sick. Even in grave cases where the patients were already moribund the mortality was cut down phenomenally. Sixty-two per cent of the cases that were not treated died, whereas only 8 per cent of the treated cases succumbed...
...establishment of an orchestra with a sound financial backing that will guarantee the continuance of the musical traditions of the two societies. "By bringing the friends of both societies into a single organization, to create a fund for the pensioning of superannuated members of the orchestra, and a sick and death benefit fund. "To undertake the erection of a new hall that will serve as a suitable and permanent home for the new orchestra. "To enlarge the educational work of the society by making available to musical students and school children in the City of New York a greater number...