Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scalp because he refused to believe that inflation was a cureall. Even conservative members of the Administration were recommending a quick burst of paper money as the only practical way of silencing the inflationary clamor. "'I am unexcited and intend to remain so," President Roosevelt, up from a sick bed, told callers who asked him what he proposed to do about the currency. But by the end of the week he had begun to act. The President received a delegation of southern Congressmen and planters whose demand for 20? cotton had been shunted about Washington for days. They...
...lost his head with his heart. Ida was out of the same social drawer as Charlie, but she had ambitions: she really believed she was well on the road to Hollywood. While she was still in the midst of her tinsel glory Charlie went home to visit a sick aunt...
...manufacturing sobriquets which not only stuck, but fitted. When, therefore, an obscure Tennessee General defied the Secretary of War, when he secured twenty days' rations for his 2070 men from an unfriendly colleague, when he dug a thousand dollars out of his own pocket to care for the sick, and when, turning over his own horses to the medical department, he herded his disheartened regiment all the way from Natchez to Nashville,--it was certainly time for a new nickname. He's "tough," exclaimed an admiring voice from the ranks. "Tough as hickory," observed another, naming the toughest thing...
...windows. The Governor's motorcycle escort rode one down. A pack of them upturned a policeman and his screaming horse. There never had been so many people gathered anywhere in the nation since Armistice Day. Nobody in town, not even the blind news dealers and the invalids and sick folk in their beds-for the bands brayed ten solid hours-will soon forget New York's NRA parade...
...Chinese cricket-lover lives in a bedlam. Several rooms of his house are stacked high with jars of crickets. Exhaustive manuals tell him what to feed each species at each meal (sick crickets get a special diet of red waterbugs...