Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Resurrection. In Madison, Wis., Dr. C. A. Deadman confounded hospital physicians by recovering handily from a severe heart ailment...
Died. John ("Jack") Quinn Picus, 60, oldest active pitcher in major-league baseball at the time of his retirement in 1935, one of the last of the spitballers; of a liver ailment; in Pottsville...
...with drops, oils, balms, unguents, drugs, juices, tablets, shots, minerals and liquor, it was the loftiest medical project of the age. The National Institute of Health would launch (about July 1) a fight to the finish against the common cold. The aim: to discover prevention and cure for the ailment that every day keeps an estimated 250,000 Americans away from work in industry alone...
...confusion was epitomized by a Munich professor who was called before a huge audience to give the real lowdown on the problems of German reconstruction. Owing to a nervous tic, this professor always broke into a broad grin whenever he had something serious to say. So infectious was his ailment that his audience, after listening to his grim dissertation on Germany's total collapse, walked out convinced that the apparent tragedy was just a huge joke...
Died. George Arliss (real name: George Augustus Andrews), 77, actor and cinemactor who was responsible for the general misapprehension that Disraeli, Richelieu, Voltaire, Wellington and Hamilton bore an astonishing facial resemblance to one another; of a bronchial ailment; in London...