Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Maxim Gorki, 60, greatest living Russian novelist, was stricken at Leningrad, with appendicitis...
...Greeks voted. But Athens reported a curious fever which was taking a daily toll of some 40 lives in the city. Telephone and telegraph communications were crippled because the personnel also was stricken...
...world press was mildly atwitter, last week, over reports that the long expected transformation of President Ahmed Bey Zogu of Albania into a King will shortly be accomplished. Albanians, filthy, wretched, impoverished, fly-bitten, famine starved and earthquake stricken were not much interested. They know that Ahmed Bey Zogu is President because he is also Chief of the most potent of feudal Albanian tribes. There is no one to stop him from calling himself "King," "Sultan," "Tsar," "Shah," "Mogul," "Mikado," "Inca," "Cazique," "Way-wode," "Vaivode" or even "Tycoon...
...concubine of the old Emperor, his own father, and though the old man must have known perfectly well what was going on, he had pretended not to see. Taking counsel from this time-honored precedent, Genji blandly ignored the conscience-smitten Kashiwagi, and soon actually pitied his terror-stricken young Nyosan...
With the ascendancy of the Medicis, Nicolo lost his job, was accused of plotting against the new rulers, banished to his poverty-stricken country villa. Here he was reduced to the boorish society of the pot-house-backgammon and trie trac with butcher and furnace-makers replaced learned converse with the intellectuals of Florence. Though he filled much of his time with wine, women, and oaths, he was forced out of sheer boredom to pore long hours over his beloved Latin-history, comedy, philosophy (translated from the Greek)-and set down his own political philosophy (The Prince, The Discourses...