Word: colon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toscanini has agreed to conduct six concerts in Buenos Aires this summer, at the Teatro Colon, whose orchestra and operatic productions are South America's finest. Thus the Old Man is not too old (74) or tired to carry on, as some of his friends have suggested. But he is disturbed about the state of the world, and reluctant to enter on long-term commitments. Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony wished to hire him to help celebrate its forthcoming 100th birthday. But its subscription concerts have by now been allotted to nine conductors,* and special performances would have...
Colitis. The colon is next to the tail end of the large intestine. It may become sore from emotional strain, passage of rough food, hereditary kinks. The trouble is usually not serious, and a nervous person must learn to "live with his colon." Before going to parties, those who "fill up quickly with gas . . . can often get great relief by taking a teaspoonful of paregoric or a quarter of a half grain of codeine sulfate...
...Blue Ridge foothills at Marion, Va., a coffin was lowered into a grave. In it was the burly body and curious brain of Sherwood Anderson, paint manufacturer, ad writer, editor, short-story teller, novelist, poet, American. The grave had had to wait more than two weeks. Anderson died at Colon, Panama...
Canal Zone, last month. He had sailed from Manhattan on the same ship with Playwright Thornton Wilder, who is on a cultural mission to Latin America. At sea Anderson fell ill, 48 hours later had to be carried ashore at Colon on a stretcher...
Three days later he died of an abdominal obstruction and peritonitis - "right on schedule," said one of the Colon hospital men, explaining that people with such trouble usually live just five days...