Word: sickroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sickroom air hung this week over Chicago's Stevens Hotel as 1,500 radiomen gathered for the annual convention of the National Association of Broadcasters. Instead of milling happily in & out of hotel suites for three days with drinks in their hands, the delegates sat glumly and listened to disquieting speeches. An NAB veteran said he had never seen so sober a meeting...
...prickly Father Moynihan, engrossed in his scheme, Leo G. Carroll (Angel Street, The Late George Apley) is adroit as always, but he cannot do much more than brighten things up the way flowers do a sickroom. Everything in Jenny Kissed Me is well meant and almost nothing is well handled: it dawdles when it should skip, and sits gabbily on when it should make its excuses...
...stranger asked the Babe to autograph three baseballs, the Babe said: "Who for?" For a bedridden boy, explained the stranger. "Where is he?" asked the Babe. He insisted on riding the twelve miles to deliver them in person. The boy's mother led the big fellow into the sickroom, and broke into tears as her son sat up in bed. "He's been delirious," she said, "and he thinks he's dreaming...
...transferring a little of their strength to him. To be healed internally as well, the patient swallows a little of the painting in herb tea. Leaving a sand painting intact overnight would be at least as dangerous, the Navajos believe, as leaving an X-ray machine running in a sickroom. So before sundown each day, the medicine man releases its magic force by obliterating the painting with a plumed wand...
When Anthony Lombardi Jr. was six years old he was put to bed, his heart critically weakened by rheumatic fever. For the next six years he seldom left his sickroom. Through the open window he could hear his friends playing outside on Denver's Quivas Street; sometimes, when he was propped up in bed, he could watch them. Then, at night, he made elaborate plans for all the things he would do when he got well...