Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have heard the Senator from Alabama a dozen times during the last year make what he calls his anti-Catholic speech. I have heard him denounce the Catholic Church and the Pope of Rome and the cardinal and the bishop and the priest and the nun until I am sick and tired of it, as a Democrat...
...small room in an English country house, famed Author Thomas Hardy lay sick in bed. Frail, 87, a little querulous in his talk, he still seemed unaccustomed to this invalid ease, the result of a chill he lad caught a month before. His hands, as thin and brown as claws, played nervously with the edge of his quilt. James Barrie came to talk to him; Hardy's peaked mournful face was turned sideways on its pillow, his voice seemed shrill and tired as he spoke to the writer who, with himself, shares the honor of being most respected...
...refused. Said he: "Business is business, but friendship is also friendship." Mystic and baron clasped hands. And an "obligation is an obligation" to Reuben H. Donnelley, 63, president of Reuben H. Donnelley Corp. (Chicago publishers of directories) and vice president of R. R. Donnelley & Sons (Chicago printers).** Last week, sick abed in St. Luke's Hospital, Chicago, he told a story all but forgotten...
...authors mix sorrow with breathless farce, the better to dimn the bewildering existence of this astounding family. Some fear the play is too acutely written from the inside of the theatre to appeal to audiences. The first audiences laughed resoundingly; and cried a little, particularly when Fanny Cavendish fell sick and died. She was Haidée Wright, English actress, excellently welcome, brilliant in her part...
...been presentable, would have made her a paragon, curdled in her mind to a meagre and ineffective savagery. First she hired many cooks. Then, finding no diversion in the products of their art, she signed away all the lands she had loved, forgot her income, relinquished her estates, retreated, sick and deserted, to sun her blistered skin in a squalid cottage on a fisherman's island...