Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Mrs. Katrina Ely Tiffany, 51, wife of Jeweler Charles L. Tiffany, vice president of Tiffany & Co.; from pneumonia; in Manhattan...
...business and industrial depression again set in, and Dr. Todd's brains averaged 1,540 c.c. He told the dining doctors: "Here were the men who could think for themselves, who knew and resented their fate. The pneumonia of the shiftless, the tuberculosis of the overwearied struggler, the heart disease of the adventurer, no longer acted alone as our receiving agents. Instead, men shot themselves or each other; threw themselves into the lake [Lake Erie]; poisoned themselves with morphine or raisin jack; or perished of cold, listlessly lost in despair." Late in 1922 smaller brains came to the anatomy...
Died. Mrs. Therese Förster Herbert, 65, onetime famed opera singer, widow of Composer Victor Herbert; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
...exhumation of Miner Floyd Collins who died in Sand Cave, Ky., one Willie Nelson, slim farm lad, slipped into the digging and extricated Rip, prized foxhound owned by one R. V. Kelly, sporting bachelor. After dozing beside a fire and refusing to pose for press photographers, Rip died of pneumonia. His rescue had cast...
...Fickle" in Rigoletto; shot by his wife in a jealous rage, in Vienna. This news caused the first extra edition of Viennese newspapers to appear this year. Died. Mrs. Alice Gresham Dodd, 64, gold star mother of James Bethel Gresham, first U. S. soldier killed in the War; of pneumonia, at Evansville, Ind., in a little cottage which citizens built in memory of her son. Died. William Vanderbilt, 70, dynamite expert, suddenly, at Peabody, Mass. He arranged 75 sticks of dynamite in a circle, stood in the centre, set them off. Died. Lucy Maynard Salmon, 73, ranking professor at Vassar...