Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...twelve, Albert Edwin Keigwin maintained a canary in his father's parsonage in Wilmington, Del. It came to pass that the canary fell sick...
Luis Angel Firpo, "Pampas bull": "Under my signature in The New York World, I wrote that on the 14th of September [the night I fought Dempsey] I was not even in condition to face a sick...
...made a speech at a Woodrow Wilson memorial service in Brooklyn. Said I: 'They called him cold when he was only shy. They called him austere when he was only gentle. Those who execrated Woodrow Wilson, who cried "Crucify, Crucify," those who knocked, knocked at the door of his sick room, spying upon a weary President, pursuing him like a deer set upon by snarling hounds, are now in the shadow of disgrace.' Applause cut me short. Then I went on: 'Are resting under the blight and stigma of a Nation's shame and reproach'? again I was interrupted...
...sick-list complications end in a stalemate, the comparative scores for the intervening three weeks shed little more light. Harvard defeated by a 2-1 margin the same Tiger Outfit that four days later shut out Yale 1-0, but in turn the Crimson slumped, and bowed to Dartmouth 4-3. In the minor games the Elis downed B. U. 6-0, Williams 5-0, and Cornell 4-3, while the Crimson was taking an 8-1 pasting from the B. A. A. and beating Hamilton...
...Republic of Czecho-Slovakia, the "soundest" nation in Central Europe. Professor Masaryk, formerly of the University of Chicago, is the President, and is known as the "Father" of the new nation. But since its birth, he has not borne a preponderant part of the battle. He has been often sick. Benes is young, of sturdy build, shrewd, quick-witted, with a flair for conversation, light or heavy. When he speaks English he is never at a loss for a word; if he cannot remember the word for "mines" he snaps out "industries metallurgiques" in the French accent comprehensible to AngloSaxons...