Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Disaster struck the following day. In bold headlines, the paper lamented, "Tom Burke Disabled. The Half-Mile Champion Lame in England. Setback to the Chances of Harvard and Yale." The article went on to explain the nature of Burke's ailment, an old stone bruise, and said," Burke is almost broken-hearted over the misfortune. Fortunately, Adams, the American second-string half-miler appears to be in superb condition...
...prognostications they failed, for the heavily-favored Burke, who had been ill with a stomach ailment since he landed, finished a dead last, and a Cantabridgian named Davison won the quarter-mile...
Died. Duke (born Russell T.) Shoop, 53, political reporter, war correspondent, longtime (since 1933) Washington correspondent for the Kansas City Star; of a liver ailment; in Washington...
Died. Theodore Edwin Stein way, 73, board chairman of Steinway & Sons, who could "put a piano together blindfolded," grandson of Founder (in 1853) Henry Engelhard Steinway and one of the world's leading stamp collectors; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
Died. William Grove (Bill) Skelly, 78, founder and board chairman of Skelly Oil Co., a Republican power in Oklahoma, where he dished out federal patronage during the Coolidge and Hoover Administrations. Known as "Mr. Tulsa," he donated more than $250,000 to Tulsa University; of a kidney ailment; in Tulsa...