Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must to all men, Death came to Carl Ethan Akeley, 62, sculptor, hunter, taxidermist, engineer. It found him where he had often been before, in the heart of Africa. Weakened by fever and a nervous breakdown some months ago, he died last week of hemorrhage attendant upon pneumonia at Kabele on Mt. Mikeno, Uganda, Belgian Congo...
...with a leisureliness that masked a new gusto while Mrs. Bolton methodically sorted soiled clothes for the electric washing machine. Both tried to act as they had regularly done all the years of their marriage. But their red-headed daughter, Eliza May, for three months bedridden with a nervous breakdown, was openly joyful. Now she could go traveling for her health, for Father had just become a millionaire...
Died. Eugene Victor Debs, 71, five times Socialist candidate for President; at the Lindlahr Sanitarium, Elmhurst, Ill., of kidney disease and myocarditis, following a nervous breakdown...
Died. Dr. William Francis Campbell, 58, distinguished surgeon, cancer specialist; at the Presbyterian Hospital, Manhattan, of cancer, following a nervous breakdown four months...
...Amsterdam; of morbid Schopenhauer, neurotic Nietzsche, recondite Kant. Emanuel was regarded by himself and his family, as a mental prodigy. He had made public orations in the Liberty Loan drives at the age of 10. He had finished high school at 16 and, after a nervous breakdown, read long and late at philosophy and psychology, screwed up in a corner with his scrawny shoulders hunched, his lean hooked nose thrust into a book. Mr. Silberstein, a tailor, and his wife, would listen in awe to their son's condescending accounts of long arguments with Mr. Calisch. They looked...