Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hips?" To illustrate, she took a jacket from a model and tried it on herself. When it failed to close across madam's own well-developed bust, she said: "See what I mean? Designers keep forgetting that women are females, human beings with legs, bosoms, hips. I am sick of the cardboard silhouette. I am cutting out the frills, the whalebones, the stiff flounces, all that inhuman nonsense...
With a completely exhausted crew and two sick children, Davis decided to head to head for Rapa, a South Sea Island. The twenty-fifth day out, the approached the tiny island, and in a letter to friends, Mrs. Davis said they "nearly went mad. Our first reaction was to wash ourselves, the first bath in 26 days. We drank a toast to the destruction of the Roaring 40's, then promptly collapsed with the sudden reaction to the terrors we had been through...
...epidemic of spinal meningitis broke out on Atiu, one of the outlying islands. It was the hurricane season, and no commercial craft would risk the voyage. Dr. Davis borrowed a 35-foot sailboat and reached the island with a crew of volunteers. Ten people had died, and 100 were sick, but there were no more deaths after he went to work. "They have a different name for me on every island," says Dr. Davis, "but on Atiu I am known as 'Ocean Wanderer...
...have to worry about money again until the last years of her life, but illnesses of all sorts plagued her: "It's not true that life is one damn thing after another-it's one damn thing over & over-there's the rub-first you get sick-then you get sicker-then you get not quite so sick-then you get hardly sick at all-then you get a little sicker-then you get a lot sicker-then you get not quite so sick-oh, hell...
...never again wrote good poetry. She was found dead in the isolated country house in Austerlitz, N.Y., where she had lived alone since the death of her husband in 1949. Even near the end, sick and broke, she refused her publisher's proposition to compromise what she had written by writing what she called an "erotic autobiography" to accompany an edition of her love poems...