Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sick man vehemently denies that he is sick, Florida Rotarians and Realtors would have the world know that, in spite of the late unpleasantness, their state is still the earthly paradise. That there was a slight frolic of the elements, that rain drops fell, that breezes blew--all this the Floridians admit. But of disaster they will have naught. Photographs, presumably taken after the tempest, are spread over the country, and they show scenes in a peaceful southern clime, with slightly battered palms outlined gracefully against...
Last week, Senator Bayard, in his role of Treasurer of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, decided that he was sick of Republican talk; so he ruffled his flowing, black silk necktie and emitted a broadside against President Coolidge. Said he: "The Republicans have been banking on Coolidge popularity but are now trying to sell the President personally to the country through a press agent-Bruce Barton-who is best known as the author of the book The Man Nobody Knows. This is simply an effort to draw red herring across the trail of the dismal record of the complete failure...
...first story, however, an Englishman fights malaria, long before and long afterward, with whiskey. One day his wife finds him lying drunk in bed, "with nothing on but a sarong." She cuts his throat with a Malay sword. In another yarn, an Irishman named Gallagher gets sick with violent, devastating hiccups in mid-Indian ocean, dies-supposedly because his fat Malay mistress had uttered a curse upon him. This incident so profoundly moves one Mrs. Hamlyn (contemplating divorce) that she sits down, writes her husband: "Think kindly of me and be happy, happy, happy." The best part of this story...
...this crime against the untainted amateur spirit will not, it is predicted, meet with the success that had been predicted. There was no scrambling for the balls, players were not besieged for autographs. Mademoiselle Lenglen and Mr. Richards missed a trick by not sending tennis balls to the sick boy whose convalescence has recently been so materially aided by the receipt of a baseball from Mr. Ruth and a football from Mr. Grange. The Madison Square Garden audience showed no World Series fever and Mademoiselle Lenglen showed no temperament. Which in itself is enough to prove that there...
...sick man does strenuous thinking before he decides to undergo a serious operation. The "sick" American colleges, too, will be chary of the decision made by H. (1. Wells and also by a corespondent of the "Nation" that the only cure for a prevalent lack of real interest in learning among college students is a generous wielding of the knife and saw. Wells, in fact, considers that to kill is to cure, and advises that, since college is a "palpable waste of time", all general education should give place to small specialized groups in close relation with their professors...