Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doctor's fees are fitted to his patient's purse. Those Illinois doctors may charge the double fees to neurasthenics, cranks and flustery mothers with ill-natured babies whose night calls are unwarranted. The rich, too, may be charged double. But the needy and the veritably sick will be charged in proper measure, for medicine is still a profession in Illinois...
...Patrick surrendered his whole attention to the sick man. The train tore westward. The bald, intense man wrote out a telegram to Mrs. Albert Patrick of Marceline...
Does a Negro woman's husband gulp down his evening meal, reach for his hat, announce that he is "going for a walk," setting out to get a cigar, starting for a lodge meeting, calling on a sick friend, or give any other of the ancient husbandly pretexts for effecting an egress from his home, what steps are proper for his wife to take? Not tears or smiles, not reproaches or endearments, not cries or kisses, according to Negro "Dr." Samuel Kojoe Pearce, lodged last week in a St. Louis jail. The correct procedure is to purchase...
Strong, born in 1872, has been in his office since 1914, when the Federal Reserve System was instituted. He is a sick man, and it was for that reason that his visitors came to him in a body, so that he would not be obliged to exert his little strength to go to them, as had been his past habit...
...Answer calls made to a subscriber with a given message, such as that he is sick, busy, absent, but may be reached, later, at such-and-such an hour...