Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more than an hour Col. Williaml L. Keller, Chief Surgeon of the Walter Reed Hospital, close friend of the sick man, probed Secretary Good's abdomen. The appendix was gangrenous, perforated, and out of place, dangerously low. Doctors watching the operation shook their heads gravely...
Father Power died at 25, of phthisis, some 60 years ago. About 30 years later rumor crept about that his grave held miraculous powers of healing. Fortnight ago the rumors grew and flew. From Boston, from all New.England, from the outer-States and Canada came the sick, the halt, the blind, the faithful, the curious; also quick-lunch vendors, souvenir postcard hawkers, trinket peddlers, troublemakers. From dawn to dusk, day after day, the slow-shuffling queue wound through the cemetery to the silent grave, heaped with flowers, surrounded with guttering vigil lights. Boston's Irish Catholic Mayor-elect James Michael...
Likely Lady has been known all over the country and won blues everywhere except in Chicago, where she was sick. Robert Moreland, famed Kentucky horse-trader, bred her. Mr. & Mrs. Harold Palmer of Grosse Point, Mich., own her. One James Thompson rode her, sitting back in the Kentucky style to accentuate the machine-like rhythm of her action. She won the most important class for saddle horses...
...smoky room in Manhattan, 32 of the foremost bridge-players of the U. S. met in fours last week to play for the Harold S. Vanderbilt Cup. At a corner table the donor of the cup sat, ruddy, youthful, in a brown business suit. Expert Sidney S. Lenz was sick and could not play, but Wilbur C. Whitehead was there, smiling through pince-nez attached obscurely to his clothing by a neat black ribbon. Present were Ely Cuthbertson and his wife, Josephine, famed as the most dangerous married couple in bridge. All felt that the occasion was significant for something...
...comes back to him, but when the Sanatorium burns down she dies and he, ironically, escapes. Then there is a man going blind with what The Suicide calls "the barber's itch." Says he to The Suicide: "My eruption is only on the skin but you're sick inside." Other characters who experience a chapter-the-last are: 1) a lady "always wringing something" whom a bull gores; 2) a man who dies of shock when his wife threatens him with a pillow; 3) a doctor who falls into a hole in the ice and dies from exposure...