Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make a stumping tour of the state. His son was his pilot. But the aeroplane was disabled and Mr. Lindbergh had to finish his tour by rail. Senator La Follette is resting at the Battle Creek (Mich.) sanitorium before going on a speaking tour. "I'm not sick," he declared. "I am here because I don't want to get sick!" Henry Ford told how the Volstead Act should be enforced:" Turn the Volstead Act over to the Army and Navy for enforcement. They haven't anything to do in peace time anyhow but go through...
...John W. Davis presided at the meeting, and declared that the most real tribute to the services of the Volunteers came from the unknown men and women who could say "We were hungry and you fed us; thirsty and you gave us to drink; naked and you clothed us; sick and in prison and you visited us." President Harding, who was prevented from speaking by pressure of official business, wired: "There are few parallels in history where husband and wife have jointly and severally made such a notable contribution to human uplift...
...know," he said, "I'm sick...
...Sick?" I repeated...
...sick," he went on, "and tired of this whole stupid business. Here I've given four of the best years of my life, and the whole time I've been nothing better than'a fireman. That's all there is to this college. Just a big fire-house. Wake up by a bell ringing, jump into your clothes and run some place. And then every hour there's another bell and you get up and run somewheres else...