Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mais non!" smiled M. Doumergue. "I have lived up five nights of stairs all my life. It has not hurt me to climb three flights* to visit the sick Americans...
High up in a Manhattan hotel a tired, grizzly man lay sick. It was Ignace Jan Paderewski, 65 years old, exhausted after a season of 70 concerts before some 250,000 people; too tired to play again this season; too sick to attend a testimonial dinner planned for him by the American Legion, to whose $5,000,000 endowment he had contributed $28,500, the proceeds of four concerts...
...belied that members of the visiting school track teams were too busily occupied on Saturday morning to peruse the CRIMSON's deodorized editorial of welcome. The newly inaugurated liaison committee, eager to extend Harvard hospitality to those invited, must have felt a trifle sick at the sound of "Harvard's voice...
...last crime was to poison an elderly couple with whom she had lived, after stealing their entire savings. On three occasions she volunteered to nurse sick women friends, whose deaths she caused by introducing poison into the drugs prescribed for them by their physicians. Her first and most revolting murder was accomplished when she poisoned her fiance, "for the pleasure of watching his death agony," and celebrated over his corpse the dread "Mass of Satan." It was the latter which made France shiver...
...would so develop. Our undergraduate body, heterogeneous in comparison with most American colleges, is homogeneous in comparison with Oxford, which has students from every walk of life, every English-speaking country and state, every race, and every color. English youths, by the time they go to college, are heartily sick of public school conformity, and go in for rather extreme individualism: but over here, the desire to be "regular" outlasts school, and oven college...