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...York's tabloid Daily News headlined: POX VACCINE . . . MAY SIDETRACK CUPID. The story: because vaccination sometimes causes a false positive Wassermann, vaccinated couples, required by state .aw to pass the Wassermann test before getting a marriage license, would have to delay their weddings until their vaccinations wear...
...Earl of Halifax, some 60 years away from childhood, came down with a childish illness at just the wrong time. Soon after Winston Churchill arrived for a stay, the Ambassador broke out with chicken pox. Churchill crossed his fingers...
...Virgin of Quinche (rhymes with keen shay), a rejected piece of religious statuary which a sculptor had traded to the Indians of Ayacachi in 1586 for a few pieces of lumber, was credited with miraculous powers. She could cure fistulas and the pox and prevent disasters as well. Last week the Virgin of Quinche figured in the greatest railway disaster in Ecuador's history...
...opportunistic M.P. had immense charm, justly boasting that he could "talk away" his ugly face in half an hour. He led a dazzlingly licentious existence-swilling, wenching, dabbling in the "blasphemous and priapic" rites of the notorious Hell Fire Club. "Wilkes," said Lord Sandwich, "you will die of a pox or on the gallows." "That depends, my Lord, on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress...
Tragic though the situation appear for Radcliffe, many of the leading national figures will be hanging out the window of the maze of buildings surrounding the 'Cliffe quadrangle as a host of female take the field to meet their inevitable doom at the hands of Crime, the 'Pox Killer...