Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Criticized for bad synchronization in recent films, producers denied their technical incompetence by confessing that "doubles" had sung and talked for certain performers: for Richard Barthelmess (Weary River), one Frank Withers; for Louise Brooks (The Canary Murder Case), one Margaret Livingston. ¶ In Beverly Hills Mabel Normand, sick with tuberculosis, was not told, for fear that she would worry, that her husband, Lew Cody, was also ill. In a San Bernardino health resort Cody, in bed with a nervous breakdown following influenza, was kept ignorant, for a similar reason, that there was anything the matter with his wife...
Technique of blood transfusion has enabled many an individual to help a sick or injured friend. It has also created a traffic in blood. Blood brokers organize professional donors and supply them to hospitals. The friendless patient pays $50 a pint for blood. Brokers exact 20% of that as commission. Manhattan has about 2,000 donors, half of them professionals, half occasionals (impoverished people, thrill seekers). One Thomas Kane, deckhand, after giving blood 100 times in 15 years, ''retired'' last week. He boasts himself the record holder and now considers selling patches of his skin...
...yardstick of political power. A Harvard graduate of good family, the late Boies Penrose (1860-1921) climbed the Republican ladder of Pennsylvania to serve 24 years in the U. S. Senate, where Death found him chairman of the potent Finance Committee. Long a Republican National Committeeman, from his sick bed in Philadelphia he helped dictate the Harding nomination in 1920 over the long-distance telephone to Chicago. He wrote a scholarly history of Philadelphia's city government. The Penrose sandwich (graham bread, tongue, lettuce, tomato) is still a classic item in the Senate restaurant...
...once wrote a play (Major Barbara) about the Salvation Army. The heroine loses a fight, leaves the Army. Lately, in real life, a Salvation Army heroine, Commander Evangeline Booth of the Army's U. S. division won one fight and lost another. She succeeded in getting her aged, sick brother. Bramwell Booth, deposed as General of the Army. She did not succeed in getting herself elected to succeed...
...Tank Corps stationed in Sussex. The attaché was unconvinced until the Foreign Office sent for Lawrence and displayed him in the flesh. After the Frenchman had departed, Lawrence flew off the handle and protested bitterly at the inconvenience to which he had been put. He said he was sick of being accused of fomenting every revolt that came along. The Under Secretary was sympathetic, but suggested that Lawrence return immediately to Sussex and forget all about it. He added, however, that if ever he could do the other a favor-within reason-Lawrence should call upon...