Word: sicklied
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...always something else going on. . . . The funniest thing that happened to me abroad was the most pathetic. For two weeks I've been refusing good drinks." "How often?" asked incredulous newsgatherers. "Continuously." "Why?" "Hell," said the Mayor of New York, "you spoil it by asking why. I was sick!" Later the Mayor of New York said: "The greatest thrill of my life was when I knelt at the feet of the temporal head of the church in Rome...
...from De Pinna's. How would De Pinna's like it if I put an advertisement calling Brooks and Rogers Peet the "leading clothing stores" in New York? I guess Brooks and Rogers Peet could quote figures on numbers of suits sold that would make De Pinna look pretty sick. Just as I could quote football scores that wouldn't read so well as the "leading 'prep' schools of the East...
Baby Parade. Before the beauty parade came the baby parade. Small-appearing brats were wheeled along the boardwalk to the cheers of parents and the catcalls of a few. One baby became sick due to the swaying of the float upon which it was being wafted along. Several babies broke into tears as they heard the fearful pandemonium caused by 15 bands all playing at the same time. The dirigible Los Angeles flew over the babies, severely frightening several and terrifying two. After the event prizes were awarded to the babies who appeared most healthy...
When, after that war, he followed the career of his father, Dr. John Haven Emerson, he observed that children did grow taller in the springtime. They also took sick with colds, fevers, measles, scarlatina, scarlet fever, chicken-pox?in the springtime...
...Latin pituita means phlegm.) Actually it controls the growth of the bones of body?those of the arms and legs. When it is pathologically oversize, it makes giants of the diseased persons; when undersize it dwarfs them. Irritated temporarily by springtime disease, it, in good theory, makes the sick child grow like a weed...