Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like many another king, Alexander of Jugoslavia was sick last week with influenza when Monsignor Anton Koroshetz, the Prime Minister, called to say that he no longer had a majority in Parliament and must resign. His Majesty replied between coughs and snuffles that Monsignor Koroshetz would have to wait...
...same time handsome. There is one such at the Metropolitan, Jeritza; but she, always uncomfortable in trousers, does not like the role. Who, then, last week, was to sing Rosenkavalier, already once postponed, when Soprano Greta Stueckgold, who had been selected for the part last week, fell sick...
...effort to depose her, Aunt Evangeline suddenly took the offensive. She led a movement to lop away Brother Bramwell's autocratic power, and make the office of generalissimo hereafter elective rather than dynastic. Invoking the memory of Father William, Brother Bramwell rejected all such proposals. Then he fell sick...
...London. At New York Aunt Evangeline, shedding her army uniform and taking an assumed name, departed secretly on the Olympic. Reluctantly she left behind her horses, dogs and Pekingese pup Tiny, for British quarantine regulations denied their entrance. Arriving in London, she was not granted permission to see her sick brother. She engaged a suite at the Howard Hotel. Flowers sent by friends, baskets heaped with fruits, made it a bower. Niece Catherine did not send gifts...
Someone, talking about Walter P. Chrysler two years ago, said: "The biggest game stays in the deep forest." The reference was to Mr. Chrysler's relative obscurity from the public eye during the years when he was the greatest doctor of sick automobile companies that the industry had ever known. Sweet are the uses of that sort of obscurity. All his life Chrysler has managed to make himself thoroughly well known in quarters where it would do him the most good...