Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will require in regard to this matter. There is nothing whatever in the record, on and off, to justify the politely sordid comments you make concerning liquor, and myself. For your information, I am suffering from acute neuritis in my legs which followed a severe case of double lobar pneumonia (unconscious five days and not expected to live), which in turn followed an attack of acute gastritis with hemorrhages (unconscious two or three days). Is it possible you confuse neuritis with alcoholic jitters? Perhaps the latter condition is more easily understood by the writer of such a glittering article...
...Magnus Johnson, onetime (1923-25) U. S. Senator from Minnesota, at Litchfield, with pneumonia; Governor Charles Ben Ross of Idaho, Democratic rival of William Edgar Borah for the U. S. Senate, at Boise with neuritis; Senator William Gibbs McAdoo of California, at Santa Barbara with a carbuncle. Snapped he into a radio microphone at his bedside: "The party of Lincoln ... is nothing more than a racketeering gang led by millionaire privilege seekers and tax evaders, with a following of inflammatory demagogs and Democratic renegades in the pay of the Liberty League...
...system, such as poisonous metals (lead, arsenic, bismuth, mercury) or carbon compounds (alcohol, Jamaica ginger, carbon monoxide, ether). Toxins may be generated, among other ailments, by childbed fever or diabetes. Neuritis may be the result of infections like diphtheria, typhoid, scarlet fever, measles, rheumatism, mumps, gonorrhea, smallpox, pneumonia, blood poisoning, malaria, tuberculosis, syphilis. It may be due to chronic anemia, senility, cancer, arterial disease...
Died. George Arthur Plimpton, 81. publisher (Ginn & Co.), philanthropist, scholar (The Education of Shakespeare), for 45 years the able, money-raising treasurer of Manhattan's Barnard College; of pneumonia; at Lewis Farm, Walpole, Mass...
...Pope Pius XI in Chinese education, Layman MacManus helped found the Catholic University of Peiping. All this smoothed the way for a request he made of the Holy See five years ago. Of the six MacManus sons and daughters, two had died within two years: Hugo, 20, of pneumonia and Hubert, 24, of sarcoma. Mr. & Mrs. MacManus determined to build a church on their estate at Bloomfield Hills, bury their offspring therein...