Word: kidney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recover from starvation with a three-day diet of fruit juices, cereals ("except rice"), eggs. On the fourth day she has "a big juicy steak" and a romp with her only Philadelphia companion, a wire-haired terrier named Whiskers, from whose loin Miss Medes six years ago removed a kidney. Last week Miss Medes was vacationing from a November spree, will go on another after New Year...
Edgar Degas was practically blind the last years of his life, painted little after 1900. Honored by the world but avoiding it, he stalked about Montmartre in a long black circular cloak, on interminable walks that seemed to aid his kidney trouble. He died Sept...
Died. William Voris Gregory, 59, since 1927 Democratic Representative from Kentucky; of a kidney ailment; in Mayfield...
Died. Field Marshal Julius Gömbös. circa 50, bullnecked, swashbuckling Premier of Hungary, longtime admirer and disciple of Benito Mussolini; of complications following a kidney ailment; in a sanitarium at Nymphenburg, Germany. After the War he founded an anti-Semitic society called the "Awakened Magyars," restored punishment by flogging in the Hungarian army, renounced anti-Semitism when he became Premier four years ago. At news of his death his cabinet resigned to await developments...
...Last week Death struck its first square blow at the Roosevelt Cabinet when Secretary of War George Henry Dern died after a long illness in Washington's Walter Reed Hospital. He had suffered a severe attack of influenza in Charleston, S. C. last spring. In July, weakened by kidney trouble, the 64-year-old Secretary took to his bed never to rise again...