Word: king
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most people thought until quite recently that pneumonia was a disease in which one grew rapidly worse until THE CRISIS, whereupon one either died or definitely recovered, unless there was a RELAPSE. These old-fashioned ideas have been strikingly challenged by the King of England's steady resistance to pneumonia over a period exceeding three weeks. Science has now so advanced the medical profession that it has been possible to increase and fortify the white germ-destroying corpuscles in the blood royal. The skilled specialist is prepared today to wage a long-drawn war of attrition with the enemy...
...blood culture was taken and a positive result obtained. The therapy directed against the [King's] infection has taken the form of chemical antidotes and attempts to raise the immunity" by injections into the blood stream...
...course only one woman fits this description. She is Dowager Queen Marie's daughter-in-law, Princess Helen of Greece and Rumania, mother of Boy King Mihai of Rumania...
Princess Helen's eyesight is happily improving under the care of specialists. Her elder brother, the late King Alexander of Greece, died of a monkey bite. Her eldest brother, George II of Greece, lives in cheerful banishment from his onetime kingdom, in England. Finally Princess Helen's divorced husband is M. Carol Caramain, the abdicated onetime Crown Prince of Rumania. Had he only been a faithful, proper husband the "Best Mother" would be today no princess but Queen of Rumania. Perhaps the enormity of that privation, which she has cheerfully borne, entitles Princess Helen to her big gold...
Slender and inky black President Charles Dunbar Burgess King of Liberia welcomes nowadays many a white U. S. youth arriving to earn his fortune on the new and mighty plantations of U. S. Rubberman Harvey Firestone (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926). One such ambitious colonizer was Thomas B. Wells, 26, a Yale graduate. With his young wife he recently went out to what seemed a promising job on one of the Firestone plantations. There he contracted malaria. Prudent, he and his wife left Liberia, speeded home. Last week they were crossing the Atlantic aboard the French Line's majestic...