Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...angry Labor pixie spat at Conservative Churchill that his latest opus was a "Brib-ery Budget!" After that-cripple or no cripple-it was Parliamentary war to the knife. Not unnaturally, Mr. Churchill, a man of flesh and gusto, who looks as if he had never spent a sick day in his life, watched keenly for a chance to catch his enemy off guard. Swaying on his canes, Mr. Snowden worked himself up to a pitch of spleen, harked back to the old debt settlements made by Chancellor Churchill with France and Italy, declared them to have involved...
...football, Beatty at University of Toronto; Thornton at University of Pennsylvania. Beatty was Canadian Pacific President at 41; Thornton president of the Canadian National Railroad at 41. Both came from railroad offices, not from railroad tracks. Beatty took over a strong system, made it stronger; Thornton took over a sick system and made it well...
...guards around my house. When people hear about you paying a lot of money for a picture they get the idea that your house is lined with gold and they do everything but climb into your bedroom windows. Honest, I wish this thing would die down. I'm sick of hearing about...
...Lieutenant-Governor is sick, he may be dying!" cried Sir Lomer's secretary, rushing into the Legislative Hall. Three doctor M. P.'s and a priest sprang up, dashed after the secretary to the anteroom...
Maria Jeritza, darling of Vienna, wanted a gold-brocaded dressing-room. At her own expense she ordered one at the Vienna Staatsoper. Last week, arrived at Vienna, she found no gold dressing-room, fell sick. Performances were postponed. The press blamed not the sickness but the unfinished dressing-room. Decorators were hurriedly corralled. Jeritza improved...