Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weeks later the terrible old man sent me a letter informing me that what I had eaten was part of the thigh of_ an executed murderess, which he had obtained through bribing the police. I need not add that I was sick to nausea for days and weeks afterwards...
Naturally, there have clustered together little groups of serious European thinkers to make the same discovery that Americans have made, that Jazz is a great art form. So, since that sort of thing makes him sick, Critic Ernest Newman last week had at it bitterly in his London Sunday Times, saying...
...predicted: "Airplanes will be made so safe and at such a reasonable cost during the next five years, that the average man who owns an automobile will be able to buy a plane. . . . The man on the ground has an idea that airplane riding will make him sick and be too thrilling. As a matter of fact there is not as much 'kick' in flying as there is in fast automobile riding...
...physicians could make bacteria sick unto death, they would have one more implement in their armentarium of cures. Bacteriophagy has proved effective against some two dozen bacterial species...
Businessman-Boss Brennan is getting mellow. He is playing his last big game, "betting his bossdom against a seat in the U. S. Senate that Illinois is sick of prohibition." The voters perk up their ears and open their eyes. Now they can see how this backroom worker of cigar stores and old saloons performs. He feeds their curiosity with garrulous anecdotes, he says little of economic significances...