Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bone in the brain is an exceedingly rare freak. Yet it may happen when a cell from a cancerous bone floats through the blood and takes root in the brain. Last week the American Journal of Cancer carried the report of such a bone in the brain of a man who originally had a cancer in his left thigh bone...
...Died? Frank Evans Seagrave, 74, astronomer who accurately predicted the reappearance of Halley's comet in 1910, the time and duration of the 1932 total solar eclipse; after an operation for intestinal cancer; in Providence. R. I. In 1882 he made important astronomical news by photographing the transit of Venus...
...sitting in a barrel. She was billed as "The Fasting Woman." Last week the bony body of the Fasting Woman lay behind a screen in the charity ward of a London hospital. A card was clipped over her bed: "NORINE LATTIMORE. . . . Born: Doughty St., London 1894. . . . Cause of death: cancer. . . ." Thus ended the career of Dolores, for nearly 25 years London's best known artists' model...
...life of Dolores was not all posing for artists. She was the daughter of an obscure Lancashire actor. Her unfortunate mother trouped provincial music halls for years, finally died of cancer too. Three men committed suicide on Dolores' account. When she was a handsome overdeveloped child of 15 one John Wadham, secretary to the aristocratic Caroline, Lady Gordon Lennox, took poison. The next suicide was that of Lieut. Frank Amsden, her first husband. In 1929, Frederick Atkinson, a painter and writer of flamboyant verses, did away with himself after friends finally convinced him of Dolores' persistent infidelities...
Died. Marie Dressier (Leila Koerber), 64, cinemactress; of uremia complicated by cancer; in Santa Barbara. Canadian-born, she went on the stage when she was 5, played a profusion of light roles climaxed in 1910 by the lead in Tittle's 'Nightmare in which she sang "Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl." Thereafter she appeared in cinemas with Charlie Chaplin (Tillie's Punctured Romance, Tillie's Tomato Surprise). After the War she found herself unable to get engagements, tried futilely to make money in Florida real estate. When she was 60, almost penniless, she scored an overnight hit as "Marthy...