Word: overworking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Gabriel Amand, 62, general secretary of the 1937 Paris International Exposition opening next month; of cerebral congestion, attributed to overwork; in Paris...
...turned in a too-realistic report on native vices which Napier's successor sent on to Bombay as an effective way of removing a subordinate whose bawdy satirizing of army etiquette did not amuse him. Burton narrowly missed expulsion, returned to England, his health and morale shaky from overwork and official nagging, to find that his report had made him unsafe for polite society...
...Slick was a frenzied wildcatter from Pennsylvania whose boomtime oil financing became the wonder of the Southwest. He held lawyers, geologists and physicians in equal scorn and died of overwork in 1930, bequeathing his name to two oil fields, a withered oil town and Slick-Urschel Oil Co. In Oklahoma last fortnight the name Slick disappeared from the oil business through a merger of Slick-Urschel with the new Transwestern Oil of Oklahoma...
...young couple invited Shaw to live with them when overwork brought on a breakdown. Says he: "It was probably the happiest passage in our three lives." But soon his Mystic Betrothal began to assert itself. "I had to consummate it or vanish." His friendship with the inoffensive Sparling made the thought of stealing his wife revolting. Nor could the three friends arrange a divorce because Shaw could not afford to marry and Sparling could not afford to be divorced. Moreover, the scandal would have damaged the Cause. Shaw left. To his astonishment Sparling left soon after. May Morris...
Died. Ernest Robert Graham, 68, famed, prolific Chicago architect; of high blood pressure brought on by overwork; in Chicago. Schooled by the late great Daniel H. Burnham, he collaborated in planning Chicago's 1893 Fair. In Chicago he designed or helped design the Field Museum, Union Station, Merchandise Mart ("world's largest building"), Marshall Field department store, Civic Opera and Wrigley Buildings; in Manhattan, Wanamaker's and Gimbel's stores, the Flatiron, Equitable and Chase National Bank Buildings; for Washington, the Union Station and General Post Office; California's Mount Wilson Observatory...