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Died. David Lloyd George, Earl of Dwyfor, 82, Britain's Prime Minister during World War I, last surviving member of the first Big Three (the others: Wood-row Wilson and France's Clemenceau); of complications following influenza; in Llan-ystumdwy, Wales. Through five reigns and three wars, the fiery, witty, flamboyant Welshman enlivened the House of Commons. A combination of zeal, oratory and energy pushed him, step by step, to leadership of the Liberal Party, the British Government, and finally the Empire...
...Domburg only one Dutchman was willing to go. It was the same in Oostkapelle, Westkapelle, Veere and all the other dike-side communities. Worried officials knew the marooned folk had food for two or three months. But they had little fuel for heating. Diphtheria, typhoid and influenza were spreading. And when the flood tides and angry storms of late winter and early spring struck Walcheren, what then? There might be famine. Baffled officials wondered if they should evacuate the people by force...
...revealed that from September 1939 up to September 1944 he has written 520,000 words, all original and all extremely funny, often in the worst possible circumstances. Sometimes they have been written with influenza during all-night air raids, and sometimes with just influenza. In the winter they have been written with no coal . . . and in the summer either in a cloud of wasps or (as in the summer of 1944) in a cloud of wasps and a nonstop bombardment by flying bombs. During the raids there was the ever-present anxiety that the local [pub] had been hit, thus...
Harvard is in a particularly dangerous position because the masses of men in training, coming and going through the College from warmer climates, are especially susceptible victims to grippe, pneumonia, sore throate, and influenza...
...mules got influenza, gastroenteritis, laminitis, mange, screw worm, sprains, wounds. They got the best medical care from veterinarians attached to the caravan. They were given blood transfusions. The seriously sick and hurt were sent to the rear for repairs...