Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manhattanites luxuriating last week where the weather was warm thanked the good fortune which enabled them to escape an influenza epidemic so severe, according to outland newspapers, that the Metropolitan Opera House had been forced to close...
True it was that the Metropolitan Opera Company was worse hit than at any time since the influenza scourge of 1918. The sick list mounted...
...have it, Tillie's old lover turned up at this point, and just as the humiliation of being actually in love was threatening to bring Jo to a normal level, he overheard a conversation which even a cleverer man would have understood. When his consequent breakdown, complicated with influenza, failed to bring him Death, he married faithful Alice-leaving the story a sadder, much less interesting...
...started to have a baby which she did not want, lost her job, came down with influenza, had a bang-up row with Gilbert and left him forever. A week later they were together again and the sky had changed from mackerel to fair...
...funeral directors whose charge is for the whole funeral rather than just the casket. The average funeral comes to around $300. No figures on the actual number of caskets sold by National are ever given out, although the company admits that the all-time highs were during the influenza epidemics when stocks reached zero and caskets had to be recalled from non-flu districts. National estimates, however, that it makes one-sixth of the U. S. output...