Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus bluntly defined was the problem of what the West might do for Asia. What could Asia do for the West? Ceylon made a gracious start. Buddhist priests at Kandy, learning that Bevin has a heart ailment, invited him to view the cherished relic of Buddha's tooth, which they say has curative powers. Usually the tooth is taken from its jeweled cases and exposed only once in seven years...
Died. Monty Banks (real name: Mario Bianchi), 52, Italian-born onetime silent film comedian, producer-director husband of British Comedienne Gracie Fields; of a heart ailment; in Arona, Italy...
Died. Robert E. Ringling, 52, last surviving child of the five original Ringling Bros.; of a heart ailment; in Sarasota, Fla. In 1934 Baritone Ringling gave up a mildly successful career with the Chicago Civic Opera to help head the money-losing family circus; with cousin John Ringling North, he put the big top back on a paying basis, lost out as president after an extended family quarrel and legal battle, ended as chairman of the board...
Beautiful Sophia was the youngest, reared by her mother as a fragile invalid only to shed her ailment when handsome Nathaniel Hawthorne made her his wife. The second sister, Mary, was the quiet one who married famed Educator Horace Mann-but only after sister Liz had made maidenly passes at Horace which included combing his hair. Liz never did get the men she coveted at various times of her long life, though one suitor seems to have committed suicide when Liz decided that he "was not sound-minded nor well-principled...