Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...everyone knows, George V once almost died of pneumonia and long suffered from bronchitis (TIME, Dec. 3, 1928 et seq.}. This experience magnified in his mind the dread which all Englishmen have of respiratory diseases, chief causes of disability in England...
Died. Mrs. Isobel Carothers Berolzheimer, 36, "Lu" of the radio trio "Clara, Lu 'n Em," wife of Professor Howard Berolzheimer of the Northwestern University School of Speech; of pneumonia; in Evanston, Ill. Ill with influenza in Evanston lay "Em," Mrs. John Mayo Mitchell. On the air nearly six years, their gossipy act was conceived when the three were Zeta Phi Eta sisters at Northwestern...
Mainspring. It is 75 years since George Norris was born on a farm in Sandusky County, Ohio, the youngest of eleven children. A few days before his second birthday his elder brother was killed in the battle of Gettysburg. When he was four his father died of pneumonia. He grew up to support his mother and nine sisters. Since then he has been the only male member of his family although he has married twice (his first wife died in 1901) and has three married daughters. Before he was 24 he had worked his way through college and law school...
Died, Dr. John Gresham Machen, 55, peppery Philadelphia Fundamentalist; of lobar pneumonia; in Bismarck, N. Dak., where he had paused on a speaking tour...
Died. Luigi Pirandello, 69, metaphysical playwright, member of the Italian Academy, winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize for Literature; of pneumonia; in Rome. A spry, goat-bearded poet, novelist and schoolteacher, he turned to playwriting at 50, achieved fame in 1920 with Six Characters in Search of an Author. Believing life "a very sad piece of buffoonery," he constructed his unrealistic plots to prove that "nothing is true and anything might be." At his death, unpredictable Playwright Pirandello was finishing a volume to be called Memories of My Involuntary Sojourn on Earth...