Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arbor, Mich., one Dr. John Sundwall, Health Officer, warned against handshaking, declared that disease lurks in friendly salutations, that handshakers are purveyors of death, described how secretions of the nose and mouth pass to the hands. Said he: "The average man's hands are contaminated with these secretions. A man who has the infection and whose hands are contaminated meets and shakes hands with a friend. Shortly after, the other's fingers go to his mouth. The route of transmission is completed...
...with a scorecard on which are printed such exercises as: "I respected the rights of animals. I was loyal to my country's laws. I was not 1) vulgar 2) profane, in speech. I did not take anything without the owner's consent. I tried to do all the health chores," etc. At the end of each day, the knight marks with a check those rules which, after honest self-examination, he finds he has not broken, thus training himself to be more and more like an orderly modern citizen, less and less like a knight...
...vessel burned at her pier. In 1921, she went with Mr. Riddle to Argentina. Six months later, she was obliged to return to New York on architectural matters and, during the voyage, the vessel's rudder jammed and the ship "nearly turned turtle." Her successive experiences impaired her health and her doctor forbids her to join her husband in Argentina. So he is coming home...
Still in as good health as he was last year when he received the tributes of University alumni and undergraduates, and of those most prominent in the public life of the nation, President Eliot continues his interest in all matters concerning Harvard and America. His recent address on Zionism created widespread discussion throughout the country. Several weeks ago he spoke at the first of the "Religion and Law" lectures before a large group of undergraduates and members of the Law School on "The Universal Motive Is Religious...
Furthermore, those Italians who have learned the language of their adopted country must in duty adopt the customs of that country, of which oaths and abjurations, are no less important than sober garments instead of gaudy scarf's. The Italian wanderer from his dative health must also keep his hand in, by liberal excursions into doubtful proprieties of speech, or he will not be able to make himself understood when he gets back home...