Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kentuckian said of the "corn" in the julep. When he is on (which happily is most of the time) whether to heap new polysyllabies on the head of his obtuse Semegambian followed, or to narrate before the curtain the tragic consequences of "The Wrong Flat", the audience laughs itself sick. When he is off, the play has as much freshness as is found in articles rummaged from grandmother's trunk in the attic...
...successful and it is going to be successful, because the people there are just about as sick of politicians as the American public is getting...
...That's an old story", said Coach Fisher, "and has been before the Rules Committee several times. The acceptance of this suggestion seems to be the sole purpose of Mr. Coffin's existence and I am rather sick of expressing my opinions on the subject annually. If I have anything to say, the experiment will never be tried out in the Stadium...
...made Casey, the hamball-player, famous is sick of him. The act that has made audiences all over the world for 36 years go wild, is a deadly automatic performance for the genius who created it. The thrill of the first recital of "Casey at the Bat" repeated in almost every large city in the United States, has disappeared and it is now a matter of dull routine...
...sick of Casey, now. I could kill him sometimes. I have done him so often that it has become part of my physical machine and my mind wanders anywhere while I am doing it. Then I wake up, forget where I am, and am in a hole. I have Casey miss that ball six or seven times, and I have had him miss it only once. It never makes any difference to the crowd...