Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Standing on the shore, Commander de Pinedo watched his two globe-trotting comrades dive from the plane and swim to safety. But soon the Santa Maria was a charred mass of wire and twisted metal. The heavy engine plunged hissing from its supports into 60 feet of water. Sick at heart, Commander de Pinedo cabled Premier Mussolini for another plane in which to carry on, for the glory of Fascismo, his four-continent itinerary, of which there remained to be completed a flight to the Pacific coast and up it to Seattle, thence east via Chicago, New York, Boston, Newfoundland...
...Ginling College were looted-the college escaping because a young Nationalist soldier who had a sister studying there arrived with a detachment to guard the campus. ¶ The Japanese suffered most. Several women servants at their consulate were stripped and subjected to carnal violence. The Japanese consul, who was sick in bed, barely managed to escape with his life, saved nothing but a portrait of his Emperor, the sublime Son of Heaven. Later a Japanese officer, ostentatiously without arms, landed from a Japanese gunboat in the harbor, and with great coolness brought 160 Japanese citizens in safety from the city...
Three days from Manhattan influenza developed among the enlisted men. At the ship's pharmacy the bottle of famed C. C.* pills was set aside and the bottle of aspirin tablets put ready. Sick men went to bed until the hospital was full; then they were placed in cabins. At Panama 167 were sick of influenza. Eleven men developed mumps, infectious disease that added to fear aboard. To restrain the epidemic officers forbade enlisted men to mount above the main deck, first-class passengers to descend from the promenade. Continuous entertainment kept morale...
...Golden Toes had no idea what it was all about and disported himself as usual, taunting his sister, Poppit-"Runt-o! Runt you are!" he would bark-and tumbling over his own ears. But the others were subtly changed-Tessa into a jealous fury; Boris and Kim into love-sick school-puppies. The Legs noticed, and shut Rennie in the goat house, thrashing Kim when he nearly gnawed in to her with his sharp terrier teeth. Then the Legs-in-Authority brought the romantic black stranger up from San Remo on a leash and put him-oh, outrage!-into...
...true that I am sick. [Stock jobbers recently used his sickness to beat down the price of Cities Service securities.] I have been a sufferer from rheumatism practically all my life [57 years], or at least that is what it was called. . . . What I have now resembles what I had [when I was 23] in every way, but they now call it arthritis. . . . I have been in Johns Hopkins Hospital since the latter part of December. . . . If people want to transact business with me and insist upon doing so at Johns Hopkins Hospital, I will be simply compelled to move...