Word: cardiac
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...sudden death was due to foul play. Promptly surgeons at the University of Berne set their minds at rest. They found that King Feisal, "The Sword Flashing Down at the Stroke," had succumbed to an advanced stage of arteriosclerosis of the aorta and coronary arteries. The King's cardiac condition had not been improved by his insistence on smoking 100 cigarets...
Because Irvington House, a home on the Hudson for cardiac children, burned down two years ago and a new one is needed, Manhattan last week was treated to one of the best shows it has had in years. The evening started out like most expensive, long-winded benefits. Big, shambling Heywood Broun introduced famed playwrights and authors who stepped out on the platform, allowed the audience to look at them. Grover Whalen, the city's greatest handshaker, pompously read a paper describing the Cause and used all his superlatives to boost the talent which followed: Sopranos Evelyn Herbert...
...Reid Hall-residence for U. S. female students-she took a train for Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat on the Riviera. There, at her daughter Lady Ward's Villa Rosemary, the cold grew worse. Bronchial complications set in; her heart became affected. Dr. Robert Louis Levy, chief of the cardiac department of New York's Presbyterian Medical Center, was summoned by plane from Paris, but oxygen and his skill were no match for pneumonia and an aged heart. When Ambassador Edge, at the personal request of President Hoover, telephoned Cap Ferrat next morning he was told that Mrs. Reid...
Admitted the professor last week, with a smile at himself: "I should never have dared to operate if I had known that the apparent blister was a cardiac aneurism. The diagnosis was wrong, the operation successful...
...passion and its inevitable concomitants. Already an acute observer may see an occasional lady leaning over her casement in the hope that a modern knight will pass by in a suave phaeton gayly tirra-lirraing. Whereas the Vagabond does not profess to be more than slightly conversant with such cardiac matters he has heard from vehement, if not avowedly authentic sources that a knowledge of poetry is rarely a hindrance and often a help...