Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sooner had the fact become known than Thomas Whelpley became a human interest story. All Manhattan newssheets gave him stories, while the World paid him to attach his name to a series of articles recounting his experiences. The series told: about a woman who entered his cab saying "Drive me to Hell!", plunged through her biography in luridly improbable terms, drank liquor from a bottle and implied an improper proposal in her admission that she had no money to pay the fare; about two Negresses, who, while sitting in Thomas Whelpley's cab, engaged in a long conversation...
Septic sore throat is caused by Streptococcus hemolyticus, a tiny germ closely resembling and related to the streptococci of scarlet fever. It is generally distributed in milk, but is a disease of man, not of cows. The milk may become infected by human hands, or, what seems more logical in view of the widespread character of the epidemics,* the udder of the cow becomes infected from human hands, releasing a stream of contagion at every milking time. Most of the epidemics have occurred during the winter and spring months. Always they are explosive: a sudden appearance of sore throat throughout...
Rabies. Nineteen Chicagoans have died in the last ten months from hydrophobia caused by dog bites. For the eight years previous to 1927 no single human death had occurred. Since August, 1927, 1,046 Chicagoans known to have been bitten by rabid dogs have been given the Pasteur treatment by the department of health. Never before has there been such a situation in Chicago or any other large American city. These facts, reported last fortnight, by Health Commissioner Dr. Arnold H. Kegel caused the Institute of Medicine of Chicago to recommend...
...Shamanistic religion. The celebrated Tashi Lumpo monastery, residence of the abdicated Tashi Lama, has been deserted and desecrated. Lamas, teachers of the people, tell fortunes for alms, by the haunches of mutton, or dice; they beg and cheat; to mystify the ignorant, they mutter squeaky conjurations or play with human bones. The forest-dwelling Buddhists revere arrows and absurd amulets. Conscious reverence for Buddha is held by very...
...main characters have all been mentioned here, to say nothing of the intricate assortment of servants, lovers, cousins, and the churchmen and politicians that run riot through both volumes. With all its exhausting intricacies, this panoramic novel abounds in rich knowledge of Italian nature, and a kindly disparagement of human futilities...