Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would ask Congress to provide for the organization of a private corporation under Federal control to buy all medicinal spirits now in warehouses and distilleries and to manufacture additional necessary liquors. The Government would name the original Board of Directors and would audit the books to assure the sick public of reasonably priced whiskey. It will require $150,000,000 to finance such a corporation. If the Government cannot find proper private capital, it will ask Congress for an appropriation...
...captain sent his wireless calls fingering until he made contact with the French cruiser Jeanne d'Arc. Then it became relatively simple for the seamen's symptoms to be relayed by the West Calumb and translated to the French doctors, who relayed back pertinent prescriptions. The sick seamen survived. The story was told when the West Calumb reached Boston last week...
...Middlesex luminary was especially brilliant, standing off repeated assaults to give his mates a chance to come out at the big end of the horn by a narrow margin. Adams, who for a long time was Morrill's chief rival for the goal position on the 1928 team, was sick during the greater part of his Freshman year Last year he alternated with Morrill as Cummings substitute, and this year be is again fit to give Morrill a run for the goal position. He has had considerable experience at Exeter, and has since then profited by working out in practice...
...Depew, after serving seven years of a fifteen-year sentence for highway robbery. Eight years later this McAuley founded a mission at No. 316 Water Street, Manhattan, where wharf life is drably vile. His slogan was "The Man No One Else Wants." Drunkards, drug addicts, broken down sports, panhandlers, sick street-creatures could get a bed, a wash, a meal. It was the first city rescue mission in New York, and remains the most famed...
Just Life-Dead from the neck up; elsewhere, sick...