Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...number of prominent American bankers, business men and government officials who have this summer gone abroad to "study conditions." It is generally agreed that the opportunities for profit are large. European manufacturing plants, especially in Germany, are reported in good shape. Labor is highly trained, abundant and heartily sick of Bolshevism, provided that employment at fair rates can be obtained. Most practical business men are fully aware of the fact that when industry is sound and lacks only capital to prosper, the investor who provides the last dollars needed secures the greatest profit, and does so most quickly. What...
...David's Dad.-Somehow the report got around that this play was the Abie's Irish Rose of Germany and people assembled to malign the effort mentally and laugh themselves sick on the side. Unhappily, the things that aroused hilarity in Germany did not sound so funny in the U. S. The translation sounded like a literal rendering of German grammar exercises by one of the least intelligent members of the class. The plot bestirs itself about a haughty family who think their daughter could have done a lot better than marry that young doctor. The young doctor...
Easy money is no doubt the crux of the present situation. It is alleviating the inevitable shock of a liquidation of real estate and rentals. It is carrying many industrial concerns which have been sick ever since 1920 and are even sicker today. It is facilitating railway and utility mergers, and European recovery. But unless it leads to inflation, American business remains distinctly spotty. The Kansas farmer this year is in luck, while the textile-mill operator of New England is distinctly out of luck. The time for the average business man to shut his eyes and dive...
Such a plan would seriously interfere with the work of farmers, those employed in shops, at the desk and counter, meaning an economic waste and giving a wrong impression and alarming war-sick of other nations...
...aristocratic nose appears to be more pointed than ever. She attends rehearsals, but no one is allowed to speak to her. A performance of Tristan was scheduled. She vetoed it. It was cancelled. She is still jealous of Mathilde Wesendonck, the composer's inspiration for the figure of love-sick Isolde...