Word: typhoid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...started her unique career 27 years ago. A farmer's daughter from Keytesville, Mo., with apple cheeks and mischievous eyes, she married Robert Dooley. Shortly Mr. Dooley died, of "typhoid." Lyda married again-a William Gordon McHaffie. He also died, of "typhoid." So did Lyda's third husband, Harlan C. Lewis...
...Free Press is not so enviable as its editor. Born in Edinburgh, educated in the U.S. (at Missouri's Park College), young Scotsman Dick got typhoid fever and was told by a doctor that sea air might keep his hair from falling out. So he shipped on a windjammer to Hong Kong, drifted to the Manila Times. Later he returned to the U.S., but after a freezing winter in Manhattan he went back to Manila for good. Said he: "I can make a living in New York if I have to-but I don't have...
...Lincoln, two of whose brothers were in the Southern Army, was long wrongly accused of sending information to Richmond. She gathered strange persons around her and some of them tried to blackmail her. After her son Willie died (of typhoid), she would start from her sleep at night...
...Empress Josephine was born there, and Louis XIV's Madame de Maintenon lived there-are not enough to make up for its boredom. That it grows a little sugar, much of which goes into rum, and that the beguine began there. That it is very congenial to malaria, typhoid, leprosy, syphilis and the dobie itch...
None of the students at Wilkes-Barre had ever done manual labor; one boy was so alarmed by the unknown ordeal that he prepared himself with typhoid injections. They live in the 150-year-old house of a retired Wyoming Valley lawyer-farmer. They pay $50 (some have scholarships) for the four-week session, for food, staff salaries, etc. Camp director is young (32), pipe-smoking Edward Wright, teacher (Fieldston School), New York City Republican reform politician (he ran for the City Council last year). On his staff are a medical student, who looks after campers' hurts, an educational...