Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...girl had gone to Professor Sauerbruch with a bulge at the right side of her chest. The bulge had appeared after an attack of influenza. Professor Sauerbruch ordered an X-ray made. The picture indicated a tumor in her chest cavity. Nothing but a blister, decided Professor Sauerbruch. He had but recently operated on a man for the same thing...
Died, Enoch Arnold Bennett, 63, popular, prolific British novelist, playwright and essayist (The Old Wives' Tale, Hilda Lessways, Lord Raingo, Imperial Palace, etc., etc.); of typhoid fever (first diagnosed as influenza), after failing to rally from a blood transfusion; in London. Born of a British middle-class family, he studied law, became a solicitor's clerk, then an editor of Woman (weekly). He free-lanced for many a journal until his literary output brought him riches, made him one of Britain's four wealthiest writers (the others are Shaw, Barrie, Wells). Thereafter he lived in Europe's grandest hotels, bought...
...convalescence of Novelist Arnold Bennett, critically weakened by a six-week siege of influenza, straw was laid down and traffic thinned in the London streets near his home...
...bacterial invasion of the bladder," it was announced, "is due to influenza germs." Sir John Thomson-Walker, the Harley Street expert who was called in, said that Mr. Snowden must remain abed for "some weeks...
Escorted by an appropriate retinue- which included, of course, his close friend George MacDonald, papal marquis and prime lay promoter of affairs Roman Catholic in the U. S.-His happy Eminence had passed three weeks on the Gulf Coast to recuperate from influenza. Passing out of Baptist Mississippi into Roman Catholic Louisiana, he had made a bit of news at New Orleans by commenting on the Business Depression as follows: "The American People are experiencing a return to religion following a period of carelessness and cynicism marked by the prosperity of the land. . . . Now they are returning when they find...