Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Barney Bernard, 47, Hebrew comedian, creator of the famed Abe Potash role in the Potash and Perlmutter comedies, which he played more than 3,000 times; in Manhattan, of pneumonia. His most successful plays were Business Before Pleasure, Potash and Perlmutter, Partners Again...
Died. General Robert Georges Nivelle, 67, member of the Supreme War Council (of the Allies), one-time Commander-in-Chief of the French armies; in Paris, of double pneumonia. His mother was English, his father a French army captain. He went through the Fontainbleau Artillery School, the Superior War College, served in Africa, China, Algeria. In 1916 he succeeded General Petain at Verdun and arrested the great German push at Douamont and Vaux. After the retirement of Joffre, he led the costly offensive of April, 1917. A year later he was sent to command the troops in Algeria...
Died. James McNally, 77, Vice President of Rand-McNally (maps); of pneumonia at Pasadena...
Died. Her Royal Highness Princess Louise Mary Amelia, 65, eldest daughter of the late King Leopold II of Belgium, and niece of Mad Princess Carlotta; at Wiesbaden, alone, of double pneumonia. Heavily in debt she died unconscious of the fact that the law courts of Belgium had awarded her 2,000,000 francs...
...poisonous pus that comes from the sore of a diseased cow. And it did its deadly work. The poison spread through her system and the roses faded from her cheeks. She became a pallid, sickly thing, grew rapidly weaker and weaker-and died. The authorities said she died of pneumonia, but I knew better. . . . And as I looked upon the shrouded waxlike figure in the little basswood box surrounded by blossoms that would have matched her budding beauty, I felt as though I was looking upon the helpless victim of a murder, and I solemnly and silently vowed to work...