Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...light and build my house and supply me with all the utensils I use in it. He can provide me with reading matter, whether daily news or weekly jokes or improving literature. He can feed me meat, bread and jam. He can give me medicine when I am sick, and, when he has cured me, can take me on a pleasure cruise, put me up at his own hotels and actually print the money with which...
...made desirable by their greater urge to regulate "community life." That, says The Chronicle, means the life of other families. And one family at a time is enough. The Superintendent of Schools at Newark, N. J., banned the Red Cross text-book on hygiene and home care of the sick because it advises that alcohol and whiskey be kept in the home medicine chest for emergency purposes. A movement is understood to be on foot to inform the Superintendent that other similar publications mention narcotics by name and prescribe doses...
...French and Belgians, negotiations when possible with Poland and suppression of overzealous reactionary organizations in the country. Between the two factions the whole of Germany is plunged into wildest pandemonium, which is in turn aggravated by the radicals fighting against all comers-for peace! In a country gone sick with misery a solitary phantom strides the earth with noiseless, slippery, dreadful steps -Ludendorff. This crafty man is the leader of the monarchists. He moves but is not seen. From Munich he directs the operations of his reactionary adherents in much the same way that he directed the army supplies when...
...powerful and profitable roads will doubtless oppose the merger idea, since they are strong enough to stand on their own feet. They don't want their profits diluted by having to nurse " sick " lines. But the logic of necessity seems to be driving them to acceptance. Either they must agree to pool their mileage, rolling stock, service, and managing brains, or succumb to Government Ownership and political operation...
...other physicians theorizing as to its mysterious cause, was really only 104. Evelyn fooled them all with a little hot water bag hidden under her arm. But Dr. Morris Fishbein of the American Medical Association, Chicago, watched through a keyhole. "Hysterical malingering" is his diagnosis. The girl is still sick, and the excitement of the expose may do what a simulated fever could not. But the physiologists are vindicated! The human body still obeys its accustomed laws...