Word: influenza
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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...
...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...
...fight herself free from theatricality. For many difficult months she played to him, consciously and unconsciously, to hide her hardness. She even deserted the stage and sought to fit herself into his circumscribed, stiff circle. But memory of past adulation, fancies of future triumphs were too strong. When an influenza epidemic crippled her old company, she temporarily returned. Nico discovered this the evening he contracted the disease. With fever-bright intuition he understood her history, her strange, wavering duplicity. He left for a hospital bed, bitter, dizzy with illness. The story, which has moved ponderously through a silver-grey atmosphere...
Died. William Mehard Davidson, 67, author, educator, Superintendent of Pittsburgh's schools; of influenza, after the recurrence of an old infection; in Pittsburgh...