Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...incorporated as a city.† He prospered; became owner of silk mills; gave away his money-for a hospital, a nurses' home, a home for the aged, a perpetual fund to provide dowries for poor girls. Last week he was still living, 89 years old and a very sick man, whom his daughter was assiduously tending...
...discoveries on heart disease to his credit. One discovery was that auricular fibrillation (a form of heart disease in which the heart fibres rustle like breeze-tossed leaves) was common among children. Dr. Weiss made the discovery by shrewdly interpreting the ominous irregularity of heartbeats in children sick at Montefiore Hospital. But he refused to believe his own ears, for medical literature had reported only nine such cases in all history. So he consulted with Dr. Sidney Pincus Schwartz of Manhattan, a visiting physician. Together they searched hospital records; examined every child they could find with heart disease; found that...
...Democratic attack was blunted by Maryland's crotchety Senator Bruce, who bumbled repetitiously, and by Alabama's astounding Heflin, who bawled like a sick steer about the wicked plutocracy...
...going to St. Petersburg, Fla., tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best they can. I'm sick of the job-it's a thankless one and full of grief. I don't know when I'll get back, if ever. But it won't be until after the holidays, anyway. "I've been spending the best years of my life as a public benefactor. I've given people the light pleasures, shown them a good time. And all I get is abuse-the existence of a hunted...
...some property in St. Petersburg I want to sell. It's warm there, but not too warm. . . . "My wife and my mother hear so much about what a terrible criminal I am. It's getting too much for them and I'm just sick of it all myself. . . . Today I got a letter from a woman in England. Even over there I'm known as a gorilla.† She offered to pay my passage to England if I'd kill some neighbors she's been having a quarrel with. . . . "I wish all my friends...