Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...explained that it was the best bill that could be got. Senator Fletcher of Florida attacked the bill because estate taxes had been restored in conference. And Senator Neely of West Virginia declared it was a millionaire's bill, and wanted the taxes on admissions and on automobiles entirely stricken out. He moved to recommit the bill. Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader, made a point of order, that the bill could not be recommitted because the House in passing it had discharged the joint conference committee, ?in short there was no committee to which the bill could...
Soon after dawn his Japanese physician visited him, blanched. Rushing from the room he telegraphed to Berne for a specialist, to Geneva for a nurse, to London for another nurse. Prince Chichibu had been stricken with measles?a serious disease for an adult...
They remember how Mary Adams was afflicted with malignant inferiority as a girl in provincial little Lebanon. Her father was head hawker in the public market, a loud man with a mean soul. Her mother was doting and desperately middle class. Mary was a pretty girl stricken with panic by society's failure to come running to her feet more often than it did. Her nature preened itself and craned for admiration, thus repelling it and thrusting the girl into bitter, pitiful snobbery. She grew to despise Brand, or any one, who thought well of her. Yet so determined...
...abolition of the tax on admissions, trucks and automobiles came in a stormy session with both Senator Smoot, Chairman of the Finance Committee, and Senator Simmons, ranking Democrat, maintaining that the taxes should not be stricken out, that their loss would create a deficit next year...
...furthest reaches of medicine could not keep pneumonia two years ago from striking at the wife of Lucius Nathan Littauer, wealthy glove manufacturer of Gloversville, N. Y. (onetime, 1897-1907, Republican congressman from New York), from filling her lungs until gasping, coma-stricken, she died. Mr. Littauer, like many another grief-stricken man,* resolved to aid medical science in uncovering knowledge that might have prevented her death. So last week he gave $5,000 to New York University for the study and cure of pneumonia, and promised to give another like amount every six months...