Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only thing which is worse, and it's nothing short of nauseous, are painted slickers. I saw one yesterday and honestly on it was drawn a big green and red parrot. Above it was a pair of huge tortoise-shelled spectacles and a be-ribboned hat. Well, I was sick. You can forgive Harold Lloyd--he gets paid for it. But I'll bet you wouldn't and him dead in such a get-up outside a movie studio. This collegiate business just about finishes me. And we few try so hard to keep up the standards and yet have...
...Soria, Spain, Nacional Second, famed bullfighter, victor of numberless red duels, toyed with a weak sick old bull, mocked and mowed, flaunting his dexterity, finally despatched the animal, turned to bow before the great gallery- staggered, fell dead, struck on the temple by a thrown wine bottle...
...railroad train is thundering through the night, between Boone, la., and Council Bluffs. The engineer is sick, fainting. The fireman drunk, at his post, does not know. On the block of track a mile ahead, a wheezy freight grumbles up a grade, behind schedule and on the flier's rails. Disaster whines through the cab window, for the prostrate engineer has not seen the block signal, his throttle yawns unheeded...
Next day Thaw left for Pittsburgh. Said the Mirror: "Harry has suddenly decided to visit his sick mother, whose illness had not hitherto caused any of the many wrinkles in his bloated face. . . The Mirror has won. If he comes back to New York the Mirror will renew its campaign to get him away." With this valedictory, the Mirror published a picture of a small brunette, "winsome little Virginia Frank," and credited her with having spurned the wealthy slayer's suit. " 'Let other girls wear his jewelry,' she said...
...know what it is all about,' said one. So far as I can see, I am just repeating the course in elementary English Composition which I thought I got through with in preparatory school. It bores me sick and wastes a lot of good time that I might be putting into something useful...