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Mrs. Nefzger had the grippe but sent three of her raisin pies.

Another common word for flu, “grippe”, now totally fallen out of use in English, was used 23,649 times.

Labeling the disease nothing more or less than the grippe, the Journal warned its readers not to allow themselves to be frightened into their coffins.

Until she died in 1996, whenever my grandmother saw me going out with an open coat, she warned: “Button up or you’ll get the grippe.”

Troop ships returning from France and Belgium are reporting to sick bay at the Commonwealth Pier in Boston with the usual symptoms of the grippe.