Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other League activities, last week, included the meeting of the Security Commission at Geneva, under the Chairman ship of Foreign Minister Dr. Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia who was unfortunately stricken with a severe cold and obliged to take to bed. The Commission labored all week to produce tentative bilateral and multilateral treaties covering both security and arbitration for possible future signature among League states...
Momentously the Queen-Empress was indisposed. She was stricken last week, as was Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, with a stay-a-bed cold. Therefore two records were set: 1) Mrs. Coolidge, for the first time in her husband's administration, absented herself from a White House social function; and 2) Queen-Empress Mary, for the first time in her consort's reign, did not accompany His Majesty when he rode forth to open Parliament...
...Harry Lauder. Last week in Manhattan he rang a new change on his old story of how, when his son John was killed in the War, he pocketed his grief "and was singing for the Tommies four days later." Last week he claimed that, although stricken with grief at the death of Lady Lauder (TIME, Aug. 8), he has again mastered himself and "Now I find singing the only way to forget...
...contemplate. More ghastly here, perhaps, than in any other mystery play this season. As acted by a goodly troupe including Helen Chandler, heroine, Alan Dinehart, hero, and Clarke Silvernail, Chinese servant, they wring frightened yelps from a trembling audience. Mr. Silvernail's drolleries help to relieve tension at terror stricken moments. On the way home spectators can be heard boasting they didn't believe a word...
...China, now wholly war ravaged, and partially famine stricken, the familiar, perennial three "War Lords" continued, last week, their selfish machinations...