Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pennsylvania Museum; at Philadelphia, of a fractured skull. After a dinner of the Wilderness Club, where Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt told of their recent Asiatic explorations, Dr. Gordon started upstairs to get his coat, fell backward, cracked his skull on the marble stairs. It is believed he was stricken with paralysis...
...Manhattan, Professor-Critic Brander Matthews of Columbia University, aged 75, for 25 years an apostle of correct speech, was stricken dumb by thrombosis (bloodclot) on his brain...
Finally the 25-year-old Son of Heaven, his visage grief-stricken, repeated, as he assumed his rank a traditional formula...
Priest Masaomi Hirayama found himself possessed of yet another blessing last week: he had been stricken with consumption and had not much longer of this life to live. Concerned for the welfare of his fellow men, Masaomi Hirayama determined to end his life with a dramatic gesture planned to direct Japanese attention to much needed moral and political reforms...
...emotional skill the dramatic scene which resulted in a Danish Princess eventually becoming the Empress Marie. She, a blooming girl, and the Grand Duke (Crown Prince) Nicholas of Russia (died 1865) had experienced for each other an undoubted and romantic mutual infatuation. Before they could be married he was stricken with paralysis. Brave, devoted, he called his fiancee and his brother Alexander to his deathbed and swore them to wed each other. The gigantic Grand Duke Alexander (later Tsar Alexander III) was as strong as a bear, as slow as an ox and one of the most obstinately loyal...