Word: flu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Victor Berger said, "The chief fruits . . . for us have been Prohibition, the flu and the national debt...
Retiring respectfully the priest Prime Minister waited, doubtless prayed and presently, as the Royal flu abated, handed in the Cabinet's resignation...
...never been isolated. Hence a specific cure or preventative has yet to be developed. But the nostrum men, flourishing in a medicinal half-world, made the most of last week's threat of epidemic. To the newspapers they went with their cleverly evasive advertisements to allure the flu-fearful. Such an advertisement was that for Japanese Oil (EN-AR-CO), which under the arousing headline FLU EPIDEMIC described the oil's use for head colds, sore throats, chest colds. Perhaps even more persuasive were advertisements for Turpo, Nozol, Harrison's Heart O'Orange, Calotabs...
...that the students will be quarantined and prevented from going to their homes at Christmas vacation. It is unlikely that such action will be taken, according to Dr. Christian, for contagion spreads in cities whether schools are closed or not. In 1918, when a much worse form of the "flu" visited the country, Harvard was not shut down, although the epidemic started in Boston just before the college year began...
Walter Johnson, 25 pounds under weight from flu, said "I told the boys there would be no training rules unless I had to make some. I trust them to give me their best...