Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These actors were generally incompetent and their story about the same. It was about a doctor whose wife deserts him because he does not love her. Four years later she returns with a baby in her arms. Sick baby. He refuses treatment. She tells him the child is his. Four nurses and two doctors, all in white, gather round the tiny form. The wife staggers around the edges sobbing: "Will he live? Will he live?" Here the audience laughed...
...MYSELF-Sir William Orpen, R. A.-Holt ($3.50). ". . . In Paris I rushed to the Louvre. When I entered the Salle Carrée, there before me was the Mona Lisa. That was a shock. I not only did not like it, I hated it. It made me feel sick. . . . I rushed out. . . . I went back. . . . I was still horrified at thinking her so horrible. The slimy paint, like that of the Yiddish School of the present day! I listened to what people were saying. . . . 'That expression!' . . . 'Leonardo has here expressed womanhood in all her moods...
...been liberated from religious beliefs ?" There are appalling dinner conversations, loquacious walks about Paris, disconnected imperies, prodigious exclamations on a thousand passing matters-the necessity for affection, archaeological finds, the shrewd drinking of Rabelais, the greatness of Louis XV as a voluptuary, "kisses for lepers" (charity to the sick), an "innocent game" with an old, false-toothed witch in her carriage...
...small, compact impediment in the current of the Strand's foot passengers, but swelling minute by minute until it bulged, a black protuberance, pulsing with a low, incessant fever and disordering the normal life of the street. Nobody jostled. Men and women stood silent, taken with the sick prescience that infects crowds in the apprehension of some great event -a declaration of war, the birth of a prince...
...turned on its course and ran back 30 miles to the hospital ship Relief (which had fallen out of formation because of machinery trouble). The water was too rough to launch one of the destroyer's boats, but an ambulance boat was sent from the Relief and the sick man lowered into it. Aboard the Relief, he was operated on and reported recovering. On the green before the Pago Pago School, Chief Tupelos, barefooted and dressed in a huge brown helmet, batwing collar, four-in-hand tie, brown pongee coat and a cigar in his mouth, led 500 droning...