Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When a man is very sick or seriously injured, he is sent to the Henry Ford Hospital, some three miles away?not in a modern comfortable ambulance. The too frequent calls of the ambulance would not look well in public, and so a Ford sedan is fitted up with secret doors in the back and just a driver's seat and space for a stretcher...
...Florence, Italy, in a chamber of the Villa Palmieri, where Boccaccio is supposed to have spun out his ingenious Decameron, an old gentleman lay very sick abed. Seventy-five years were on his back. On his chest there was bronchial pneumonia. On his heart, heavier than years or sickness, there was black despair...
...resolution contained a complaint on the quality of the liquor now obtained on prescription. In a scientific paper, Dr. Roger I. Lee of Boston said that, although no value was found in the use of alcohol in acute infections or as a stimulant, its psychic effect in making the sick "feel good" and "causing the convalescent to eat" justified its use in small quantities...
...Premier Georges Clemenceau telegraphed Mme. Mangin: "He was a great soldier." Major General Robert Lee Bullard, onetime (Oct. 11, 1918-Apr. 15, 1919) Commander of the U. S. , Second Corps Area, cabled from his sick bed in Fort Totten Army Hospital: "Goodby, beloved comrade. Goodby, thou undaunted spirit." The General's Negro body servant walked alone and silently near his master's coffin. Many distinguished persons, including Ambassador Myron T. Herrick and Colonel H. H. Harjes of Morgan, Harjes et Cie., were, present...
Only a few days ago, Trotzky was a sick man, but almost overnight he became hale and hearty. The significance of his "recovery" lies deep and is best explained a posteriori...