Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fortunately, the disease was taking a far milder form than in Paris' big outbreak in 1892, when there were 16 deaths among 51 cases. Most recent victims thought they had nothing more serious than influenza; the only deaths have been among elderly invalids. Even so, Lepine's report fluttered the dovecots of the Ministry of Health...
...visions of Bernadette at Lourdes (1858). Francisco was nine and Jacinta was seven on that May Sunday in 1917 when, playing with their cousin Lucia, ten, they saw "a lady all dressed in white" hovering over a small evergreen. In 1919 and 1920, Francisco and Jacinta died of influenza. Lucia has written down the Virgin's revelations; among them was a promise of Russia's ultimate conversion...
...World War I taught him more than the seminary. After three years as an assistant pastor at Boston's Trinity Church, he was appointed chaplain of Base Hospital 6 at Talence, France. Here the 26-year-old pastor became a man in a hurry. During the 1918 influenza epidemic, he says, "I talked to practically no one who wasn't dying." He also discovered that "man is incurably religious. In 18 months, among the thousands of men at whose bedsides I prayed, there was only one who did not seem to feel that it had done him good...
...after which there had been years of hard work. In 1920, aged 36, he had married a New Hampshire girl who loved horses and dogs ... so he had bought some land in Connecticut and there they had spent much of each year . . . In 1925 she had died in an influenza epidemic, leaving a boy of three named Norris . . . During school holidays, when Norris was at home, he sometimes took the boy to places like the Metropolitan Museum and the Statue of Liberty...
Died. Cyril Maude, 88, longtime (1884-1927) leading British light-comedy actor (1,300 appearances in Grumpy), father of Conservative M.P. John Maude; of influenza; in Torquay, England...