Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Glimpses of the man: Sumner sitting under a blazing gas jet, swatting mosquitoes, helping arrange the term time-schedules of the college; Sumner, the inactive man, bicycling for his health, in uncharacteristic dowdy clothes, a cap pulled forward so that the bald cranium was revealed behind, pedalling at such a pace that his panting companion could not catch the scraps of conversation flung back at him; Sumner suddenly giving up smoking; asking for a picture of his physician's pretty child, looking at it constantly; pitching at one-o'-cat for his own boys, plunging through the blizzard...
...beside the General in front of the fireplace and smoked her long reed pipe, and sometimes she handed it to a guest with a cheery: 'Honey, won't you take a smoke ?' " Mr. Moore said she suffered from phthisis and smoked not for pleasure but for her health...
...nonetheless Siki improved in health. It was found that after all his jugular vein had not been severed. His wife came to call on him and he demanded "clo's." She opined that he had best remain in the hospital for a while in pajamas. It appeared, after she had gone, that he did not acquiesce in her proposal. He fixed his eye on a press observer who was standing near by. Siki staggered weakly out of bed, seized the reporter's arm for support, marched out of the hospital, into the street. There he hailed a taxicab...
Department of Public Health...
...long as a high percentage of the population is vaccinated, no smallpox epidemic will occur. To maintain interest in this procedure before an outbreak occurs is the duty of health authorities, and this is made increasingly difficult by such distortions of fact which give a false sense of security with the accompanying indifference...