Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beard of Otto Tulyevich Schmidt became the most famed in all Russia, and his fame the most glamorous when he and his party of 101 were airplane-rescued from the ice-sunk Chelyuskin (TIME, April 13, 1934). Subsequently he almost died of pneumonia. Last week, hale & hearty, this editor of the Soviet Encyclopedia and Chief of the Great Northern Sea Route Administration was back in Leningrad after an air tour of Polar settlements. The ecstasy he offered to eager Communists this time was an elaborate scheme for civilizing their blubber-munching Eskimos...
...Majesty sucked a bruised finger, quipped "When one is young these things don't matter." William Edward Dodd, U. S. Ambassador to Germany, sent by airplane from Berlin to Moscow a package of hominy grits for silver-whiskered Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois recuperating from pneumonia...
...pneumonia in Moscow early last month fell Boston Merchant Edward A. Filene. Bedded in the Hotel National, he slowly recovered. Ill of pneumonia in Moscow late last month fell French Novelist Henri Barbusse, soon died. Ill of pneumonia in Moscow last week fell Illinois' flower-tongued, silver-whiskered Senator James Hamilton Lewis. In the suite below the one Merchant Filene had at the Hotel National, doctors called his condition "extremely critical," summoned medical supplies from Berlin and Paris...
...Mississippi's mouth, onetime hunting preserve of the late Joseph Leiter. There the Chicago wheat speculator's yacht Emmie sank, there his remaining eye was injured in a duckblind, there his Son Joseph Jr. was killed in a hunting accident and there he caught the cold which went into pneumonia and ended his life...
Died, Edward Harris ("Ted") Coy. famed Yale footballer (1907-09), twice All-America fullback, member of the late Walter Camp's All-Time All-America team, onetime husband of the late Jeanne Eagels; of pneumonia following a heart attack; in Manhattan...