Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bacon '33, No. 6 in the varsity crew for the past two years will be unable to row against M.I.T. and Princeton in the season's opener on the Charles Saturday, April 29, because of an attack of influenza which necessitated his removal to Stillman Infirmary Tuesday, according to an announcement by head Coach Whiteside yesterday. Bacon will not be able to take part in any other races this year...
Died, Ethel King Wallace, 36, relict of Thriller-Writer Edgar Wallace; of influenza; in London...
...Senators in Washington, Mrs. Rockefeller in, Ormond Beach, Fla.; Pennsylvania's Senator Davis and Lady Louis Mountbatten, after appendicitis operations, in Pittsburgh and Paris; General Pershing, of a throat infection, in Tucson, Ariz.; Francis Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster, and Helen ("Boop-oop-a-doop") Kane Hoffman, of influenza in Saint Leonards, England, and Hamilton, Bermuda; Prizefighter Primo Camera and onetime English Ambassador to the U. S. Sir Auckland Campbell Geddes, of injuries received in automobile accidents, in Bologna, Italy, and Kent, England...
...your duty,' Low said. 'Influenza is the topic of the day, and we shall be expected to deal with it, and how can we deal with it unless you have it?' I couldn't understand why I should have to have it all by myself. Why shouldn't he have it too, 'l said? But he explained that one would be enough and the one must be me because how else could I get my facts correct? He could draw pictures from looking at me. He said he thought I should look very funny...
...said. Then I sneezed several times, and, being unable to find where I'd blown the telephone to, I had to leave it at that and bimble upstairs. So I never knew till afterward about Low having caught influenza...