Word: heart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another war but Manila's worst earthquake since 1882. Half an hour later it was followed by another almost as severe. One resident of nearby Cavite died of heart-failure. Sixty-two were injured, some by falling power lines, some in stampedes out of crowded cinema theatres. When the lights were finally turned on again, the Escolta, Manila's main street, was littered with broken glass, parts of the city were flooded by snapped water mains. The nine-story Great Eastern Hotel-whose terrified guests rushed out of their rooms more or less dressed-had settled four inches...
...corner of the famous Bund which skirts the Whangpoo, and Nanking Road, heart of the section where Americans congregate, the sky fell fortnight ago when a Chinese air bomb intended for the Idumo fell, plunk!, into the Palace Hotel (No. 10 on the map). Another, a mile away, snuffed out 500 lives when it plunked into the Great World Amusement Palace, crammed with gibbering Chinese...
...TIME, June 28). A horse laugh went through Leftist lines outside Santander when they read a purported order issued by General Piazzoni to Le Frecce Nere (Black Arrows): "As the Black Arrows were the first to reach Bilbao, so they will be the first to enter Santander. With proud heart and bayonets raised, be ready to dash to the glory that awaits...
...dine with her. At Mrs. Hall's home last week, her sons waited in vain for her to appear. Next morning they found her body in the morgue, where it had been taken by police after she dropped dead on a busy street. Cause of her death was heart failure-attributable, doctors said, to the shock caused by news of her son's ousting headlined in extra editions of the evening papers...
Died. Frederick Strauss, senior partner in the international banking firm of J. & W. Seligman & Co.; on his 72nd birthday; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...