Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Emergency. On Friday, April 20, Floyd Bennett suffering from influenza flew to the assistance of the Bremen crew. When he arrived in Lake Ste. Agnes, Quebec, he had contracted pneumonia...
Walter Johnson walked for a few minutes on sunny paths in the grounds of the Washington hospital where he has been sick with influenza...
Walter Johnson, still 25 pounds underweight from influenza, left St. Augustine to have his kidneys examined. "You may have to take a rest, Walter," said the doctor. Friends, fans, hearing the news, were worried, remembering how Christy Mathewson, the only pitcher as famed, as great as Johnson, died of tuberculosis (TIME...
...HODGE AND MR. HAZARD-Elinor Wylie-Knopf ($2.50). "When Mr. Hazard was forty years old, he decided to revisit England. . . ." Arriving there, he proceeded immediately to have an attack of influenza, during the course of which he stalked angrily about the town of London, frightening children with his dark and troubled eyes. Then, in May, he went to Gravelow and met the Huntings, Allegra and Penserosa, daughters, and Clara, their mother. These provided him with a momentary haven from the assaults of a world which he could not completely fathom, and which, by 1833 no longer admired his wise fancies...
Rain turned the red Georgia earth to clay. Manager Walter Johnson, drawn and underweight from influenza, sat on a bench in plain clothes and a raincoat and watched the Giants in the year's first game beat the Newark Bears, 8 to 0. Bill Terry, infielder, knocked a home run the first time at bat. "Gee, I wish I could get out and throw a few" Johnson said, shifting on the bench...