She tried to make him live the life of an invalid, wrapping him in cotton wool.
The first thing that went wrong was that the e-ticket Milani sent Frampton for the Toronto-Santiago leg of his journey turned out to be invalid, leaving him stranded in the Toronto airport for a full day.
In 1935 he blew the fingers off his left hand while making fireworks to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of George V. His aunt, assuming that he would remain a lifelong invalid, wrote him a cheque for £50.
The state ballot law commission ruled yesterday that 153 of the 10,139 signatures Mr. Robinson turned in on June 6 were invalid, leaving him 14 short of the 10,000 signatures he needed to secure a spot on the ballot.
It also lifts the immediate pressure from president Mohamed Morsi, who would have had to take back legislative powers had the upper house been declared invalid, opening him up to the possibility of renewed criticism that he is monopolising power.
What makes this great is that for whatever reason the host doesn't acknowledge that Hendren is acting odd at all, even though he's saying stuff like, "To cast him out, making him invalid to society, simply because he had scissors for hands... people didn't get scared until he started sculpting shrubs into dinosaur shapes and whatnot," and "Edward Scissorhands is a complete hero to me".
But to cast him out, to make him invalid in society simply because he has scissors for hands - I mean, that's strange.
"They rolled him out there like an invalid and made him look like he was finished as a ballplayer," Tacopina said.
"But I think to cast him out, to make him invalid in society simply because he has scissors for hands?
Anita Loos noticed that people in Hollywood "treated him like an invalid," and George Cukor found him "very grim, dim, slightly plump".
