Word: overworks
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Will Hays lay ill of overwork in a Chicago hospital, where it turned out he had been for more than seven weeks. Assistant Joe Breen went to his bedside, Columnist Louella Parsons rumored his retirement. ∙∙ Gloria Swanson finished a picture she hoped meant a comeback. ∙∙ Oldtime Comedian Raymond Hatton got a new part, had the same hope. ∙∙Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks No. 2 (Mary Pickford) and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks No. 3 (Lady Sylvia Ashley) flew to New York together, along with Norma Shearer, whom Ronald Balcom has been escorting when he wasn't with...
Board Member Roger Dearborn Lapham, of American-Hawaiian Steamship Co., was the color of parchment; Chair man Clarence Dykstra had just gotten over a ten-day siege of sickness. The disease they were all suffering from was simply fatigue and overwork...
Last week Morris Sheppard died from overwork, eight years short of his goal. His consuming ambition was to serve in Congress longer than anyone else...
Dies leaped up with a roar, took the floor in his committee's defense. Afterwards he collapsed, was carried off to the hospital. The cause: strain from overwork. For rewinding his burglar-alarm committee, Congress coughed up $150,000, the largest Dies Committee appropriation...
...Poland, Belgium and Minister to The Netherlands and Norway, will go Barrymore-collared Anthony J. Drexel Biddle. Jay Pierrepont Moffat, Minister to Canada, will also act as Minister to Luxembourg's refugee Government. Plump Nelson Trusler Johnson, wearied by the strain of his five years of tension and overwork as Ambassador to China, was shifted to the Australian legation, and the Australian Minister, horse-faced Clarence Edward Gauss, transferred to Chungking. Another transfer brought Bert Fish, now Minister to Egypt, to Portugal, at the same rank; while swell-shirted Herbert Claiborne Pell, the Newport bolshevik, moved from...