Word: influenza
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...pound of Bovril. This circumstance is cunningly suggested by the Bovril poster, which shows a shaggy and slightly dilapidated steer staring at a bottle of Bovril with a wild surmise that is elucidated in the caption: "Alas! My poor brother." Bovril sales took a big jump during the influenza epidemic of 1918 when it became standard British hospital diet. Bovril profits - some $1,500,000 a year -have been built in part upon the assurance, heartily shared by its noble directors, that the sense of fun never sets on the British Empire. Too conservative to desert the archaic method...
Died. Frederick De Mund MacKay, 66, horseman, vice president & director of E. W. Bliss Co. (torpedoes); one day before he was to be elected president of the National Horse Show Association; of intestinal influenza; in Brooklyn...
Died. Rt. Rev. Charles Gore, 78, retired Bishop of Oxford; of influenza and pleurisy; in London. A famed Anglo-Catholic, he long sought rapprochement between Roman Catholics and Anglicans. Bishop Gore proposed a federation of churches with the Pope as First Bishop, but he balked at Papal Infallibility. Though no Modernist, he scoffed at Jonah's Whale...
Just as no one rides on No. 99, few get inside "Uncle Dan's" white stucco house, which hides behind trees in Baltimore's smart Roland Park. There he lives with his wife and his two orphaned grandchildren, whose parents died in the influenza epidemic of 1918. He plays his violin occasionally, is a wretched golfer. Like many a railroad man, he goes to the office on Sundays. Like many railroad children, his grandsons like to go along, too. He owns the farm where he was born, farms it. He belongs to the Unitarian Church, drinks a little, smokes...
...Jane Addams, 71, famed social worker, in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, following an operation for an ovarian cyst; President Pascual Ortiz Rubio of Mexico, in Mexico City, with a high fever; Harold Gatty, 'round-the-world flyer, in Atlanta, of influenza; General Ballington Booth, 72, founder of Volunteers of America, son of the late Founder William Booth of Salvation Army, in Manhattan, following an operation for a kidney disorder...