Word: influenza
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...Duse, the great dancer Anna Pavlova last week died in a hotel, on tour, in a strange country.* In France, near Dijon, a railroad accident kept her waiting for hours in an unheated train. She caught cold and by the time she reached The Hague, planning to dance there, influenza had developed, also pleurisy. Death came swiftly, in three days. Operations and injections were useless. Pavlova's heart was weak. On the third day she roused from a coma and spoke to Victor Dandre, her husband and accompanist. She thought she was herself again, high on her toes, poised...
...Influenza is not worrying U. S. public health officials. But it is increasing: last week 44 States reported 3,867 cases. The week before the same States had 2,687 cases. Year ago they...
These are the reported figures. Because physicians usually report only the graver cases of influenza, health commissioners estimate that the actual number of people ill with influenza is five times the reported number...
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...