Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...combination. From boyhood Burden has known the forests of Canada. The cast was recruited from the Ojibwas of upper Ontario, with old Chief Yellow Robe of the Sioux, who three years ago inducted Chief White Eagle Coolidge into that tribe, and who this spring died a city death of pneumonia (TIME, April 21), Princess Spotted Elk of the Penobscots, and young Chief Long Lance of the Blackfoot tribe, author, boxer, wrestler and onetime West Pointer, to play the leads. Burden and Chanler spent ten months on wilderness location to obtain a realism so striking that Paramount, which released The Silent...
There was more ogling at Buckingham Palace. The biggest crowd since His Majesty's nearly fatal pneumonia (TIME, Dec. 3, 1928, et seq.) began to gather outside the tall iron fence not long after dawn. About 8 a. m. a rumor escaped mysteriously from the Palace that the Sovereign had risen from his Royal and Imperial bed. Half an hour later he and Queen Mary were said, on the high authority of a scullery maid, to be eating savory kippers. About 9 a. m. the patient, patriotic crowd learned that "the King is examining congratulatory telegrams and cablegrams from...
...65th year, with pneumonia just behind him, with his doctors optimistic but warning that the Royal heart is weak, George V stood smiling and puffing in the Royal Box as the horses lined up, sucking his favorite long pale weed with relish...
Died. Tom Brown, onetime mayor of Stratford, Ont., embezzler of $250,000 from his law clients, since Jan. 1 fugitive under false names (John Thomas Boyd, Eric Hauser); of alcoholism and pneumonia; in Mexico City. Accompanied by a lively brunette known as his sister, he arrived in Mexico during January, stayed at the best hotels, spent lavishly, moved to cheap quarters, stayed drunk his last three weeks alive...
Died. Mrs. Katherine Alexander Duer Blake, 50, onetime wife of telegraph Tycoon Clarence Hungerford Mackay and of Surgeon Joseph Augustus Blake, mother-in-law of Composer Irving Berlin "Always," "Russian Lullaby"); of bronchial pneumonia; in Manhattan...