Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little woman nobly responds under the optimism of her learned mate and leads the way to the dinner table where the evening repast of water gruel is ready for distribution among the stricken troop...
Newton Diehl Baker, a different type of speaker, was the man upon whom the Democrats had originally counted to persuade Missouri. But Mr. Baker, on his way to St. Louis three weeks ago, was stricken with acute neuritis and nervous fatigue. He had to get off his train, at midnight, and return to Cleveland where, last week, he was still abed...
...marriage Tsaritsas of Russia had been exclusively of German origin for a century and a half. But now this precedent was shattered, and the Grand Duke (Crown Prince) Nicholas of Russia chose to wed the little Danish princess. There is no question that they were infatuated. But he was stricken with paralysis before the nuptials could take place. On his death bed the Grand Duke Nicholas called in his fiancee and his bull-necked brother, the Grand Duke Alexander, and bade them wed. They obeyed...
...horror-stricken Architect Edouard Moravicz all this seemed too much to bear. Fleeing from the awful sight and sounds he sought a pistol, found Death...
...Hartley, 40, poverty-stricken loom sweeper, won a $100,000 newspaper prize offered by Publisher Lord Rothermere, guessing the scores of 24 football matches played last week in London...