Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them Baldwin Locomotive, U. S. Cast Iron Pipe, and Independent Oil & Gas were being gnawed at on the Stock Exchange. To W. W. Murphy, his secretary, he quietly talked; ordered large buying orders in those securities. Their board quotations climbed at once, and next day's newspapers headlined "Sick Man Rallies Stock Market...
Nevertheless, he has resurrected "the sick man of Europe", doomed to an early death by the World War, revived him on tonic of blood and iron at Smyrna and established him convincingly at Angora. Once more that redoubtable invalid plays the classic Ottoman game of fast-and-loose with Russia and Britain. He signs the Lausanne pact, and as readily a treaty of amity with Russia. He drives the unbeliever into Greece. He toys with the wily Briton at Chanak, Mosul, and in Irak. He has the very temerity to throw a wrench into the World Court, a deed pardonable...
...hours later Mr. Hughes had an appointment to lecture in Manhattan on current literature. He prefaced this lecture with a description of the " sick tomato" cast at him by Washingtonians and repeated what he had learned from George Washington's diaries...
While performing, Miss Garden possibly thought of poor Franco Alfano, composer of the piece, fumbling about his quarters in Turin, Italy; knew he was in heart-sick misery, was going blind; immediately after the performance cabled him in English and in Italian: Resurrection a great success. Congratulations and Happy New Year...
...prescription is something that a physician writes with a gold fountain pen on a little pad with incredible rapidity. "Get that filled," he says with a cheery nod, and drives away in his buggy or his Isotta limousine. The person lying sick tries to read the hieroglyphics scrawled on the bit of paper. Those venomous little curlicues, what do they mean? Of course the chances are that the physician was an honest fellow, but-well, there is something sinister about a prescription, the sick one thinks. It might mean absolutely anything. Suppose the doctor had taken a dislike...