Word: fever
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When, after that war, he followed the career of his father, Dr. John Haven Emerson, he observed that children did grow taller in the springtime. They also took sick with colds, fevers, measles, scarlatina, scarlet fever, chicken-pox?in the springtime...
...Washington admitted that there had been graft in the supply department, that the beef and biscuits had given 70% of the army fever or scurvy, and that the water supply had been mismanaged. But when George Dewey, now Admiral, steamed into the cold, sunny harbor of New York, he was greeted with more noise than all the Spanish warships made together, and people were so glad to see him that they bought him a house in Washington, which he almost immediately gave to his wife...
Seibert. One of the veterans in Detroit was John S. Seibert. In Cuba he offered to nurse seven U. S. soldiers who had smallpox or yellow fever. For this he received the Congressional Medal of Honor. When a patient, one Andrew Gould, was dying, he left a message with John Seibert who, 27 years later, found the family of Gould, delivered the message. After the World War, Veteran Seibert organized the first post of the A.E.F., named it for Quentin Roosevelt, son of his oldtime friend and commander...
Unlike most who have made this covenant with God, Robert J. White, Massachusetts district attorney, remembered it after he recovered from an operation last year. With the dark hysteria of fever forgotten, he still could sense the hot languor of his sickroom, he still could feel the curious animation which had come when he handled the holy relic a priest had brought him. Yet he hesitated to fulfill his obligation until, when his mother died, he felt that God was frowning at him for forgetting a miracle...
Leonard Wood, born in 1860 in Winchester, N. H., entered the U. S. Army as a surgeon, carved his niche in history as an administrator. When Military Governor of Cuba he led the fight to stamp out yellow fever, put a turbulent island in order, ready for independence in 1902. When Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army he became the "Father of Plattsburg, " the creator of civilian military training camps, a staunch friend of "preparedness...