Word: shielding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Camden County, N. C. a particularly malignant form laid some 500 persons low in two months. These outbreaks, however, did not perturb the rest of the nation. People know that only mosquitoes carry malaria infection from one person to another. Hence those who live in malarial districts shield themselves from mosquitoes by screening their windows, putting netting over their beds and dosing themselves with quinine. The more foresighted prevent the breeding of mosquitoes by draining swamps and oiling ponds where mosquitoes lay their eggs. Thus malaria in epidemic form has vanished from most of the U. S. and people have...
Suddenly Dr. Shields' radio listeners heard the sermon interrupted by shouts, shrieks, coarse language. In the church, the Jarvis Street Baptists craned their necks, gasped. Past dumbfounded ushers and straight down the aisle marched a woman and a young man. They both behaved as if they were drunk. Right in front of Dr. Shield's pulpit, while he glowered speechless, the pair pushed aside indignant worshippers, began heckling the preacher. Cried he: "Get out! Get out! Leave the church! Call the police!" Ushers and male Baptists descended upon the two. "You're a hypocrite!" shrilled the woman...
...band swung into the "Marseillaise" and the master of ceremonies bellowed: "Now we come to that great patriot of France!" Across the stage marched a slightly nervous miss wearing a plumed helmet and a cuirass above a skimpy bath-suit, carrying a sword and shield. The band played "Onward, Christian Soldiers." The young lady, a 17-year-old Manhattanite named Mary Louise Peck, was supposed to represent St. Joan of Arc, patroness of France, who was canonized in 1920 as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church...
...parents', Donald Campbell threw off restraints and let his tongue run wild. On and on he talked, day and night, day after day, without rhyme or reason. From bed to sofa he rambled. The family pulled down the shades to shield him from the neighbors. The folks tried to catch some sense from what he chattered. His voice became shrill, raspy, hurried. "Cigarets should never be taxed in Ohio," ran his monolog. "When I was a boy, Joe and I used to go swimming together. Now he thinks cigarets should be taxed. . . . Sometimes I believe that Joe doesn't realize...
...bursting with news. Queen Astrid was in labor and highly excited was His Majesty's Swedish mother-in-law. So too were all the Cabinet Ministers. Disruption threatened the Cabinet of Premier Count Charles de Broqueville, a delicate coalition formed year and a half ago under the mighty shield of the late King Albert's personal prestige. Thrice before his death the Cabinet was saved only by royal refusals Keystone KING LEOPOLD Like his father, he met a crisis. to accept its resignation. And a young King can scarcely take that high-handed line. While the Queen groaned...