Word: dying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much interested in the inclosed piece of information [relative to cyclones] from TIME, Aug. 30. It does not however go far enough. What happens when a waterspout crosses the equator? Does it stop suddenly and start spinning in the opposite direction ? Or does it die of convulsions? Or What? I shall be obliged if you will inform...
...Rome, Dr. Marco Porzio, great surgeon, was quoted as denouncing U. S. surgeons for "permitting" Rudolph Valentino to die (TIME, Aug. 30), after a mere "appendicitis" operation. The fact is, Rudolph Valentino died of septicaemia (blood poisoning) after the perforation of a gastric (stomach) ulcer. Polyclinic Hospital officials had not realized that many people were as interested in the cinema-man's disease as in his personality. Indeed, so gauntly meagre were the hospital bulletins that an Italian correspondent cabled Mr. Valentino's malady as "appendicitis." Dr. Porzio was deceived. But no one in the U. S. explained...
...what town did Sinclair Lewis's father die...
...Charles Spencer Chaplin were Cockney urchins together. He is still writing out of the heart of that simple miracle worked by the parchment countenance of his old Chinaman, who later made signs and bestowed ginger. He still writes, briefly-of a sad-singing Chinee poet who could but die when well-meaning friends supplied him with his heart's desire; of a Chinee hunchback who may have been white-feathered Eros for a Limey roustabout and his pretty moll; or of a pious Chinee merchant who sacrificed his family tablets, and something besides, for his friend the police sergeant...
Your magazine, which I have taken for some time, gave me a hearty laugh some weeks ago in your entertaining comment upon the Boston Herald's account of my death. I regretted disappointing many excellent people; but I don't think a man ought to die just to satisfy others; it should be his own private affair...