Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole, in the expert opinion of veteran New York Times Correspondent Walter Duranty; but unquestionably they troubled the minds and frayed the nerves of the statesmen who rule Russia from Moscow's thick-walled and tall-towered Kremlin. Perhaps, of these resolute rulers, the most anxious and sick at heart was Michael Son-of-Ivan Kalinin, the President of Russia - for he is himself a peasant (see cover). A good, a simple and a noble man is Michael Ivanovitch Kalinin. Open house is still his rule to all whom he feels are his brother tillers of the soil...
Argentinians felt closer to Europe than usual, when the not yet officially open short wave radio-telephone station at Buenos Aires was placed at the disposal of a somewhat sick and very wealthy woman who desired to consult her physician in Berlin "about a private illness." After a 20-minute conversation, she emerged beaming, reassured. Gallant reporters concealed her identity...
...cinemen, but so were the "talkie" men. These protested that Mr. President had not spoken loudly enough to be "heard" by the sound-sight machinery that was to reproduce the little scene for distribution throughout the land. Moreover a cineman came scurrying along late. "I have been sick," he said and begged Mr. President to repose...
Then came the climax. Back in the U. S., the President suffered a collapse. The incessant conflict between ideals and adamant realities had begun shattering his nerves. Even Private Secretary Tumulty was denied access to the sick man. Minor crises arose. Spurred by certain Cabinet members, Mr. Lansing called informal conferences. In the distorted imagination of the invalid President this seemed usurpation of authority. The harried idealist, taut with mental anguish, was goaded by a final sense of frustration. He complained. Mr. Lansing resigned...
Last week this happened at Massachusetts Agricultural College (coeducational) when 220 girls sullenly refused to appear for their noonday meal in Draper Hall. The food, they declared, was poisonous; a few of the more delicate girls had been sick because of it. They went on strike...