Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Filariasis rarely kills the victim directly. The St. Kitt's deaths were due to superimposed infections. No drug is known which will rid the infected human of the worms or their larvae. All that Dr. Pawan could recommend on St. Kitt's was that the inhabitants prevent mosquitoes, the intermediate hosts of infection, from breeding (by filling or oiling stagnant puddles and pools) and that they screen themselves from bites...
...marveled. Early in the fall he played the Mendelssohn Concerto with the Manhattan Symphony (TIME, Oct. 28). Critics and laymen alike forgot that they had gathered for the debut concert of Conductor Henry Hadley's orchestra, spoke only of Ricci. Next day he was a celebrity. The customary human interest stories followed?"Ruggiero is a real boy despite his genius . . . likes history, lemon pie, strawberries . . . sleeps twelve hours a night, from seven until seven...
...Wildwood, which he preferred to call Calamity Jane after Martha ("Calamity") Jane Canary Burke, famed Dakota saloonkeeper and roisterer, admirer of Wild Bill Hickok, by whose side she lies, who nursed the miners and, according to Authoress Coolidge, "softened the rigors of pioneer life with the milk of human kindness." At the White House arrived many a beast judged unfit to live therein: from Chihuahua a Mexican bear in a motor van, from Australia a wallaby (small kangaroo), from Africa twin lion cubs named Tax Reduction and Budget Bureau, a duikir (tiny deer), a dozen Pekin ducks just hatched. These...
TWELVE AGAINST THE GODS-William Bolitho-Simon & Schuster ($4). "In reality, the whole history of human progress from the flint-jabber to standing room in the subway . . . is the result of two forms of effort, the guard and the search, made by the Home-stayer on the one hand, and by the bold affronter of the new on the other; that is, by the citizen and the adventurer." Upon this somewhat labored proposition Author Bolitho presents, en brochette, the characters of Alexander the Great, Catiline, Mahomet, Columbus, Cagliostro and Seraphina, Casanova, Charles XII of Sweden, Lola Montez, Napoleon...
...lithograph of Wilson: "It is not some faded whimsicality that induces me to include Wilson ... in these studies, and to end with him, but the conviction that so alone can the structure be roofed. . . . Whereas . . . every other adventurer has fought for himself . . . Wilson adventured for the whole of the human race...