Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...just picture you ! Your attitude [TIME, May 30] toward the Illinois Women's Golf Club for women only gives you away completely. Do you think women fear male criticism whether they wear knickers or hoop-skirts to play golf ? Never believe it! No, but women are sick and tired of having to share golf clubs with rude men, men with fat stomachs and dirty cigars, dirtier language, boasting, conceit, overbearing attitude on the course when they drive right into women who are playing and treat us like lepers. They cannot hit decent shots or act decently. Half the time...
...only last night you went to a moving picture and read all the subtitles to a poor blind man who couldn't see Clara Bow and wanted. . . . But a curtain to what he wanted. Anyway, you must not go to the circus. And elephants make you sick. Now the last time...
Insomnia. "The sick and nervous are slow in getting to sleep and are helped most by the rest they get between 5 and 9 o'clock in the morning. . . . Something can often be done for insomnia by teaching the patient to keep his mind off disturbing thoughts, to avoid mental work or exciting conversations after dinner, to take a warm bath and a little food on retiring and to go to bed earlier. . . . The less the patient sleeps one night, the less he is able to sleep the next, and the only thing that will break the vicious circle...
Frank Tinney (stage comedian) began a Scottish bagpipe act in a second-rate Chicago cabaret, appeared to falter, was helped from the stage. Next day he said: "Tell the world I'm neither sick nor broke...
Treatment depended upon his observation that the brains of people who die of sleeping sickness are relatively waterlogged, and upon the fact that his hypertonic iodine solution demanded water in quantities. He injected his iodine (which was not poisonous) directly into the blood of patients sick with brain lethargy. Through the blood the iodine drained water from the brain...