Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Leonard Kip Rhinelander, 33, socialite whose sensational marriage in 1924 to Alice Beatrice Jones, daughter of a Negro taxidriver, ended in years of litigation and finally divorce; of lobar pneumonia; in Long Beach...
Died. Thomas ("Uncle Tom") Kearney, 66, nationally-known betting commissioner who wagered millions for others but not a cent for himself; of pneumonia; in St. Louis. A onetime bartender, he became a bookie in the '80s, opened his notorious "little big store" in St. Louis in 1910, accepted bets on politics, horse-racing, baseball, boxing. The first to make a future book on the Kentucky Derby, he lost $74,000 on the 1924 race, sold everything to pay it off in full. He quoted odds of 25-to-1 that Lindbergh would not fly the Atlantic, could...
...poor farm that sin't doing much, so I guess I'll let him have one of them. The trouble is, though, that I think more of the horse than I do of Sullivan, and I don't want to send it out in the cold to catch pneumonia...
Eldest was Christopher, a prodigy in mathematics and music, who matriculated at Harvard at 14, graduated with honors. Even when full-grown he preferred to play with children, to whom he used truthfully to say that he was a case of arrested development. He died young of pneumonia, in an institution. Second was Edward who became a professor of music, and now teaches in the Eastman School of Music in Rochester. Youngest son was Stephen, an asthmatic little fellow on whom the children of other professors picked most, thereby provoking Philosopher Royce to write six-page letters of protest...
...back of the head by unidentified gunmen; in a Chicago bowling alley. Died- Roy Dikeman Chapin, 55, one of Hudson Motor Car Co.'s founders, its chief executive since 1910, except for the year (1932-33) when he was Secretary of Commerce under President Hoover; of pneumonia; in Detroit. Died. Hiram Percy Maxim; 66, third of a famed family of inventors, best known for his Maxim silencer; of a throat ailment; in La Junta, Colo. Died. James Harvey Robinson, 72, noted historian and editor, of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Professor of European History at Columbia University...