Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Charles Caryl Coleman, 88, famed U. S. artist, native of Buffalo, veteran of the Union Army, who for 50 years has lived and painted on the Mediterranean island of Capri; at Capri. Buffalo. Detroit, Brooklyn, St. Louis & Louisville museums have his works...
...Enterprise's short, rakishly tilted funnels spewed enough smoke and steam at roaring forced draft to perceptibly darken the "blue." Behind lay British East Africa and the small, busy port of Dar-Es-Saalam, where Edward of Wales had taken ship. Ahead, beyond the Red Sea, beyond the Mediterranean, beyond Europe and the Channel lay the beloved Sovereign of an Empire. Radio flashes told that pleurisy had been followed by pneumonia, complicated by Bright's disease...
...days his temperature was high, 103 degrees and above. But it was certain to go down to normal. As certainly, after a period of ease, it will go high again. Such is the characteristic of the disease, and hence its variant name, undulant fever. It is endemic along the Mediterranean coasts, particularly on the Island of Malta. In the U. S. Texas is the pest area. Those regions raise goats and goats are the carriers of the disease...
Throughout the week all England grew more and more tense and sad with the premonition of this thought. As though some primeval giant or very god lay dying, even Nature grew disturbed, then violent. Great storms lashed the continent of Europe from the Mediterranean to the Baltic. Gales and floods brought death to 149 men and women, most of whom went down on foundered merchant ships or perished in the many flooded areas of the Rhineland, Holland, Belgium, Ireland, Wales and England. Seldom has Death come more awesomely. The storm was worthy even of George V, King and Emperor, defender...
There was but the slightest quiver in the eastern part of Sicily last week. A few desultory rivulets of lava gurgled into the Mediterranean. The dread eruption of Etna (TIME, Nov. 19) was over...