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Updated: May 7, 2025
"She'll think she's got a touch of 'flu', and she'll be in such a scare! I'd give worlds to see the fun. Only, of course, I daren't show myself, or she'll find out. No, that would never do." Putting the pepper-pot back in her pocket, she was in the act of leaving the room, when in the dusk she collided with Geraldine. The astonishment was mutual.
Such words are gov for "governor," bike for "bicycle," flu for "influenza," indi for "indigestion," rec for "recreation," loony for "lunatic," pub for "public house," exam for "examination," maths for "mathematics." All of these words are real slang, and most of them are quite vulgar. There is no sign that any of them will become good English.
Just having recovered from a prolonged attack of flu, I felt it unwise to go out in several feet of snow, but that was my only course. Dressing as warmly as I could, I started up through the woods to ranger quarters. The snow was above my waist, and I bumped into trees and fell over buried logs before I reached the building. The long hall was in darkness.
By six o'clock that evening they had marched on board the barges some of the men in the first stages of "flu" had to be assisted on board with their packs. These barges, as we afterward learned, were a good example of the Russian idea of sanitation and cleanliness.
In saying that the main thing the Put-Through Clan is for in a town, is to act as town-headquarters for the town's seeing through itself, as a means of making the town the best, the happiest town in the state as a means of making it a town that deserves anything it wants, I am merely saying that the act of self-invention the act of recreation once entered into as a habit is so refreshing and so extraordinary in itself, and so practical in its results, that when people once see how it really works when towns and parties and industrial groups get once started in self-discipline, in self-confession, in psycho-analysis and in taking advantage of opposite ideas there is going to be an epidemic in this country, a flu of truth.
Lee all but died, and Nielsen, afterward, told me he would rather die than have the "flu" again. To my great relief, however, they recovered. From that time then it pleased me to begin to plan for my 1919 hunting trip. I can never do anything reasonably. I always overdo everything. But what happiness I derive from anticipation!
During some time in 1914 I was very ill in Petersburg. My mother was at the same time in bed with the flu and unable to take care of me, so in desperation she telegraphed to Nelka in Kovno and Nelka arrived immediately. Kovno 1914. "I spent three days in Petersburg, arriving there finding both Veta and Max very ill. Max with fever of 104 or more.
'Not one. He bags mine when he wants to read. I'll tell you what I will do if you like. 'What? 'Go into Stapleton, and borrow something from Adamson. Adamson was the College doctor. 'By Jove, that's not a bad idea. 'It's a dashed good idea, which wouldn't have occurred to anybody but a genius. I've been quite a pal of Adamson's ever since I had the flu.
"Why should you? It is so much further. We will send in everything you want. What are we to call this this person?" said Cynthia. "Madame Melegrani. It is the name she has passed by for years." "You say she is holding her own?" "Just with strychnine and brandy. But the heart is very weak. She told Dr. Ramsay she had an attack of flu last week temperature up to 104.
In a word, moral irresponsibility is the keynote of the volitional traits of the thymo-centric personality from childhood up. With so much against them, physical inferiorities, mental defects, moral lacks of every sort, it is little wonder that the thymo-centrics die young. Infections hit them badly. The cases of flu that went off in twenty-four hours belonged to the type.
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