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Word: sicklies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...182.Herr Miiller, badly worried, appealed to Dr. Stresemann "as a man above party," thereby causing him to arise from his sick bed for a conference with the various leaders. Though the issue was uncertain, Germans looked to Great Dr. Stresemann to solve their cabinet crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Notes on Crisis | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

...Send me some of our black bread. This white French bread makes me sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany: Iron Gustav | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...were taught to point and clean the brushes with their lips. Thirteen died. Last week the U. S. Radium Corporation was defendant in a suit for a million and a quarter dollars filed by one Raymond H. Berry, lawyer, in behalf of five more female hirelings of the corporation, sick, according to Lawyer Berry and many doctors, unto death. For these five there is no light in darkness except the glow of gold indemnity. Their malady is incurable. Eleven years ago, merry giggling girls of 16, 17, 18, they got jobs to help out at home, learned to paint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Poison Paintbrush | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...wrong ideas about everything, and no ideals, for she does nothing but fall madly in love with the kind of gentlemen who were born without money and have not made any since. Like the saxaphone player, for instants, that she married, without giving herself the opertunity to get sick of him first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pervading Sadness | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...This young man came into my sick bedroom at the Raleigh Hotel unannounced and sought to interview me on the subject of the Constitutional Amendments which he has made the basis of his article. I positively declined to talk to him for publication referring him to carefully prepared articles by me which completely reflected my views. Upon his insistence and purely for his own information, I consented to explain exactly why, in my opinion, there was no analogy between alleged violations of the suffrage amendments in the South and the actual violation of the Eighteenth Amendment and the Prohibition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Chair Talk, Back Talk | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

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