Word: colds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hero of a famed hoax concocted by bored newspapermen in 1925, another boom Channel-swimming year. Itchy Guk was solemnly reported by the Paris Herald to have postponed his Channel try because the water, too cold for all the other contenders...
Minister Mesta was a little late getting to her post. When her Packard-borne party (with a luggage-laden Ford in the vanguard) motored from Paris to the border, they were stopped cold by strangely hostile frontier guards. After lengthy palaver, it appeared that Mrs. Mesta had picked the wrong country: the frontier she tried to cross was not Luxembourg's, but Belgium's. Two miles away an official welcoming committee was waiting, all set with flowers and speeches. By the time the party finally found little Luxembourg, the welcoming committee had become discouraged and gone home...
...best of Van Dyck's portraits would live as long as the paint stayed on the canvas. Seen in the cold, impersonal surroundings of the Koninklijk Museum last week, they looked a little ill at ease, for they had been intended to grace warmer, more elegant worlds. But the paintings themselves had warmth and elegance enough to make 17th Century history, and to make the people who strutted through it come alive...
...perennial search for something to head off or cure the common cold, two doctors at the Permanente Foundation Hospital in Oakland, Calif, (established in 1942 by Shipbuilder Henry Kaiser) gave twice-daily doses of penicillin to almost 1,500 volunteers. An equal number, serving as controls, were given chalk pills...
After a year, in which more than $100,000 worth of penicillin was used, the doctors came to a sad conclusion: if you want to ward off a cold, chalk is just about as useful as penicillin - and a lot cheaper. Neither prevents a cold...