Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Otto Tremont Bannard, 74, Manhattan banker and alert citizen; of bronchial pneumonia; on the liner President Cleveland bound for the Philippines. He will be buried in New Haven, Conn...
...last performance of the German Grand Opera Company, Walter Elschner, its stage manager, died. He had worked day and night planning and preparing the staging of the Ring operas, snatching rare naps stretched out on chairs in a box at the Opera House, until he suffered a nervous collapse, pneumonia, swift death...
...Lady Anne Maud Wellesley, 18-year-old daughter of the Marquis of Douro, and rumored fiancée of Edward of Wales (TIME, Dec. 10), suffered a relapse of her prolonged pneumonia last week. During His Royal Highness' recent tour of British Africa, he received radio bulletins in code concerning Lady Anne's condition...
Died. John ("Jack") Linder, 13, of No. 1340 Third Ave., Manhattan; of pneumonia and delay. A police emergency squad was called to take him from his fourth-floor home to a hospital; the delay was considerable because John Linder weighed 375 pounds. Last summer, he weighed only 341 pounds when he easily won the prize for fattest boy and ate his share of 15,000 quarts of ice cream, 10,000 quarts of milk and five tons of crackers at a Tammany children's party in Central Park (TIME, June...
Died. Caspar Whitney, 64, author, editor, explorer (North and South Americas, India, Siam, Malay), onetime war correspondent (Cuba, Mexico, France); of pneumonia; in Manhattan...