Word: overworks
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...Mary Jobe Akeley returned to Manhattan from Africa completing the work of the gorilla-collecting museum expedition on which her husband, Naturalist Carl Ethan Akeley, died last autumn. She described the manner of his death after fever, convalescence, overwork and an intestinal hemorrhage in camp 9,500 feet up on Mount Mikeno, Belgian Congo; described his grave, beneath moss-hung trees and among blooming wild orchids on "his old trail in the beautiful forest of gnomes and fairies...
...practicing surgery in Cleveland, Dr. John George Gehring had become sick. So he moved to Bethel, Me., in the Androscoggin Valley. There he opened an "inn," a kind of private sanitorium. To Dr. Gehring for cure have gone, in the past 32 years, lawyers, doctors, merchant chiefs-victims of overwork. At Dr. Gehring's they found comfort. He would set them to digging potatoes, or planting green peas, or swimming. Or he would let them sit quietly on his Androscoggin porch, looking into the blank distance until after many passive days the White Mountains took form in the patients...
...course, when the crisis arrives, the family is forgiving--"overwork, don't you know," and in the meanwhile Mr. Hargrave treats the whole matter, if not with a profound sense, at least with certain touches that show him a knower of human nature beyond the ordinary...
Died. Israel Zangwill, 62, English Jew famed as the novelist who interpreted the London Ghetto (Children of the Ghetto); in a nursing home in Sussex, England; of a break down due to overwork. Attendant at several English elementary schools, he stated that he was virtually self-educated. His literary handicraft produced The Big Bow Mystery (written to prove that it is possible to contrive a detective story in which the criminal cannot be detected by a reader until the last chapter) ; Jinny the Carrier; The Melting Pot. He was once listed as the third most eminent Jew in the world...
...eventually by the tens of thousands, that task was passed on to Felix E. Dzerzhinsky, a Pole, the son of a little almost-bourgeois nobleman, the man whom Russian émigrés christened in sheer terror, "The Black Pope of Bolshevism." Last week he died in Moscow (of overwork...