Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sweden's King Gustaf V, 91, recovered from a serious bronchial ailment, felt spry enough to do some shooting (from a canvas folding chair). His bag: two ducks...
Died. James Francis Thaddeus ("Jefty") O'Connor, 63, onetime U.S. Comptroller of the Currency (1933-38); of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles. A loyal pre-convention (1932) Roosevelt supporter, O'Connor was eventually rewarded with a federal judgeship after his defeat in the California gubernatorial primary...
...principal ailment of the Lampoon's and also the Record's stories is longwindedness. The authors take so many columns to get to the point that only their editors, roommates, fiancees and perhaps an occasional reviewer ever reach the end, or even the middle. On top of that, the clusive "point" frequently remains invisible right up to the cryptic signature...
...commonplace ankle ailment which is caused by the pounding of hoofs on race tracks and results in a painful growth, cartilage, on a front ankle...
Died. Major General Walter Campbell Short (ret.), 69, commander of the Hawaiian Department of the Army when the Japanese attacked on Dec. 7, 1941; of a heart ailment; in Dallas. Demoted and relieved of his duties within ten days after Pearl Harbor (as was his Navy counterpart, Admiral Husband E. Kimmel), Short ended a 40-year military career by retiring from the Army a few weeks later, worked through the war as a traffic engineer in the Ford Motor Co. plant in Dallas...