Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Simon, carpenter, was warming a pan of broth in the kitchen of a frame house. His wife was sick upstairs; he had come home twice that day from work to give her food. He was expecting the doctor, and hearing a knock on the door he started forward. The sound of more than one pair of boots on the porch made him look out of the window. His yard was full of men. In long white robes they writhed with dismal laughter in the moonlight. They called to him "Come out, Simon." 'My wife's sick," he shouted...
Willie Wilson stayed up late one night. He and his wife took turns walking up and down the floor with a sick baby. They heard automobiles stop in front of the house. Mr. Wilson got down his gun. Eight masked men came into the bedroom where the baby was wailing and Mr. Wilson was standing in the dark. They threw flashlight beams into his face and fired twice, killing...
...sick with a cold. I have gone to bed-and cannot see you-I am so sorry, but it will have to be another time...
...STREET and NUMBER, and if you write to the MONKEY, give us the TREE and LIMB." His title of "Doctor" is no nickname. He is a graduate of the medical school of the University of Tennessee. During the influenza epidemic, he left his postoffice and went to heal the sick...
...Crane, lots of others. The real article?starving after 40 and 50 years of incessant toil, squeezed dry and cast aside, no good for anything but this sideshow. Case 56 is pretty: 'chuckle-voiced, hat-doffing Charlie the Iceman.' Now 'Charlie's on the shelf. Old and sick and done for. And forgotten.' Listen to Gene Tunney himself on the superb specimen in case 46: Mr. and Mrs. Pat Malloy, 74 years old, worked all their lives, k.o.'d by a taxicab going home from work. Now 'the grey end. . . . They are slaves of a social system. . . . Nothing they...