Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a feature-writer has culled extra money by writing of the romance of Mr. Woolworth's rise. Yet there was little romance to it. He was a frugal, practical merchant with a good idea to work on. Success brought him the ailment common to many another U. S. tycoon-a Napoleonic complex. In 1913 this found expression. That year he built for himself a great monument, the Woolworth building, internationally hailed as a "Cathedral of Commerce." On the 24th floor he placed the company's offices. His private office represented a $35,000 departure from frugality...
...Vagabond once more is forced to comment upon the dehabilitating effects of hot weather. Spring fever usually arrives the last week in April and departs promptly on May Day, but this year things have been different. Spring fever has beset the Vagabond with a vengeance, and at present the ailment has announced no definite date of departure...
Hildy Johnson died of a stomach ailment a week before the film version of The. Front Page appeared in Chicago...
Additional validity of the Gushing hypothesis lay in the fact that the cause of gastric ulcers has been unknown. Simple acute gastric ulcer occurs more often among young anemic women, chronic ulcer in men. Especially prone to the ailment are housemaids and shoemakers. Ulcers may occur after a blow in the region of the stomach. Anemia predisposes, especially in women. The disease may be found in connection with diseases of the heart, arteries, liver, gall-bladder and appendix. The present tendency is to charge infections, especially of the teeth and tonsils, as the probable cause of stomach ulcers. A deeper...
Died? Howard Trumbo, 56, president of Cuban-American Mining Co. (manganese), onetime president of the American Club in Havana, classmate of Herbert Clark Hoover (1895) at Stanford University.; of a kidney ailment; in Havana...