Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Later than it does to most men, Death came last week to Chauncey Mitchell Depew, after-dinner orator, optimist, railroad lawyer, spectator of U. S. national affairs since the Mexican War, aged 94 years less three weeks. A bronchial infection, picked up after a winter in Florida, turned into pneumonia in Manhattan. Two bishops and a Fifth Avenue rector officiated at the funeral service. Thousands of dignitaries attended or despatched their respects...
Died. Chauncey Mitchell Depew, 93, Chairman of the New York Central Railroad, of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
Editor Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg of the Grand Rapids Herald, 44-year-old Republican, Mason, Shriner, Elk, Woodman, was appointed Senator from Michigan last week to succeed Woodbridge N. Ferris, 75-year-old Democrat who died of pneumonia last fortnight. Mr. Vandenberg made the fifth journalist in the Upper House. Fellow Republican publishers to whom he can look from behind his horn-rimmed glasses for encouragement in his maiden speech are Cutting of New Mexico, Capper of Kansas, La Follette of Wisconsin. Senator-publisher Carter Glass of Virginia sits across the aisle among the Democrats...
Died. James B. Ford, 84, vice president of the United States Rubber Co. and commodore since 1915 of the Larchmont Yacht Club; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. At one time one of the wealthiest men in the U. S., he left a fortune estimated...
...pleasant one. No more will the Vagabond be in imminent danger of contracting pneumonia from having to walk through the muddy slush of Massachusetts Avenue, as he makes his way to the shines of learning. From hence forth his steps will be bent through the pleasant lush valleys, flitting like a ghost under the shimmering moonlight of former nights of striving to separate the pure gold from ore, the grains of knowledge from the chaff of the win-nower of learning. And the danger to his health will be immensely reduced...