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...Ethel Vickery starts the day as usual, right, by waking her business-wearied husband Joe with her fatuous Swedish exercises on the floor, and endless personal hygiene in the only bathroom. Rob, their spoiled schoolboy son, lolls in bed turning a hangover into a case of overwork. Rosamond dreams, as far as her knowledge will permit, of violent love at the hands of Wesley, the chauffeur. Only Isabel, the youngest, is up & about, playing in the pools that have unaccountably appeared in the San Andreas canyon's dry streambed. Old Pryor, Ethel's father, is also up-stealing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ruthless Pity | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

...King's Physician Lord Dawson of Penn ; Charles Spencer Chaplin, in Singapore, of dengue fever; Britain's Chancellor of the Ex chequer Neville Chamberlain, of gout following lumbago ; Representative William Robert Wood, of Indiana, 71-year-old chairman of the Republican National Congressional Committee, critically exhausted from overwork on the House Appropriations Committee ; Henry Lewis Stimson, confined in his rented Swiss villa near Geneva with laryngitis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 2, 1932 | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

Died, Edward Marjoribanks, 32, able young Member of Parliament, writer (Life of Sir Edward Marshall-Hall); by his own hand (pistol); in the country home of his stepfather. Secretary of State for War Viscount Hailsham, in Sussex. England. Apparent reason: overwork. He was known to the U. S. in 1922 when, as president of the Oxford Union, he led Oxford debaters against many a potent U. S. college team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 11, 1932 | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

Speaker Garner, pointing out that Dr. George Wehnes Calver, the House physician, had said overwork hastened both Representatives' end, advised: "Ease up." Already noticeable was the "easing up" process in the House which of late has been marking time on unimportant legislation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Death for Two | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

...Queen Mary, in Sandringham, of a cold; Edward of Wales, in York House, London, of a chill suspected of indicating malaria; Editor Charles H, Dennis of the Chicago Daily News, in Chicago, of overwork; Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, in Manhattan, following an operation for acute mastoiditis; Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, former President of the Reichsbank, at Warin, German, of injuries suffered in an automobile crash; John Work Garrett, U. S. Ambassador to Italy, at his Baltimore home, with a broken foot suffered when he tripped on a rug; Lieut.-Commander George Ottilie Noville, companion of Admiral Byrd on his North Pole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 14, 1931 | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

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