The reputation for low infectivity of rubella was probably based on failure to recognise rashless cases.

Whether you see that as belated recognition of a collective shame (if not guilt) or as a holier than thou pharisaism, it was certainly made much simpler by the fact that the generation under discussion had started to fade from public life.

How they choose: They hold up a finger to the winds of recent awards results

Not that the parting speech caused Amelia to philosophise, or that it armed her in any way with a calmness, the result of argument; but it was intolerably dull, pompous, and tedious; and having hte fear of her schoolmistress greatly before her eyes, Miss Sedley did not venture, in her presence, to give way to any ebullitions of private grief.