Word: bedridden
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...When, however, he [Rev. Harry E. Fosdick] states that "I am not afraid to recover things the Protestants threw away -beauty of service and the confessional," he shows that he does not know the Lutheran service and doctrine. I, as a layman bedridden for six years, with ten ribs removed under local anaesthesia to collapse the right lung and close to the end on several occasions, wish to inform Dr. Fosdick that the confessional has ALWAYS been a part of the LUTHERAN religion, but entirely voluntary. I inclose a clipping from the Lutheran Witness...
...little sons with anti-whiskey solutions. The result: one becomes a mute, the other a paralytic. Later in life, a thunderstorm suddenly starts up during the third act to provide atmosphere while the mute is engaged in raping a girl. This reprehensible sight so enrages the paralytic (20 years bedridden) that he suddenly renews his synaptic connections, skips out of bed, does successful battle for the Right. The play's existence testifies to at least one of the evils of Prohibition...
...crogue-morts* complained of sore feet and demanded subsidy for new shoes. In Italy the authorities claimed they have no epidemic. But no gloss was smeared over the situation in Spain, Ireland, Scotland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. In Denmark King Christian and Queen Alexandrine were bedridden, and in Spain 200,000 politically less important people were afflicted...
...carpets) ate his breakfast with a leisureliness that masked a new gusto while Mrs. Bolton methodically sorted soiled clothes for the electric washing machine. Both tried to act as they had regularly done all the years of their marriage. But their red-headed daughter, Eliza May, for three months bedridden with a nervous breakdown, was openly joyful. Now she could go traveling for her health, for Father had just become a millionaire...
...waked up as well as bucked up. He stays to take his medicine. And when Dids goes off to college, Mrs. Bascomb finally focuses on the now pitiful, bedridden Lottie as a new object for the domineering energy and mother-love that was as much the cause as it is the cure of so much sorrow. The Significance. Dorothy Canfield has here achieved a magnificent demonstration of the literary maxim: "An author must be God to his characters." She has first caused, then seen, understood and clearly presented, everything these Bascombs think and feel and do and are. Good...