Word: pox
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...suicide fits of an heiress (Maureen O'Sullivan) by treating her sweetheart (Louis Hayward) for advanced dipsomania, she finds her maternal instincts for the latter in a state of overstimulation. Her confrère (Herbert Marshall) convinces her that what she mistakes for Love is merely spiritual chicken pox. This is the climax...
...lucky for the College that there was at the time a small pox epidemic in Boston which caused the removal of the Governor and his Council to Harvard Hall, for the next day, having witnessed the configuration and no doubt feeling in some way responsible for it, the Council voted to build it at the province's expense. Holyoke's daughter remarks in a letter, "I hope the K.g. will give something to replace the loss as he has never done anything for this College yet". There is no mention of her wish having been granted. The Council, however granted...
...would have hurt both Germany and Austria. Instead, giving gentle tit for brutal tat, he restored the five-schilling visa charge for Austrians going to Ger- many, forbade any to do so except for urgent business reasons. Then he turned back to the serious business of fighting the Nazi pox within Austria...
...spite of wholesale vaccinations against smallpox and the loss of three stars, Northwestern's Hanley, Rentner and Baker dashed through the holes made for them by a great line to put a pox on Illinois...
...During my stay in New York I have heard . . . half a dozen great industrial leaders . . . some of whose names are familiar on both sides of the Atlantic . . . treat the recent stockmarket panic as lightly as one might regard an attack of chicken pox on a strong and growing youth. . . . Be a bull on America and you cannot go wrong! is one of their favorite sayings...