Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Young and on the litigation which accompanied her divorce from Dome. In 1913 she decided on a tour of Australia but she was 54 and her voice was worn. On the way to Batavia her steamer was shipwrecked and there she wasted away to 100 lb., died of pneumonia in the spring...
...Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House were done in gold one night last week. On either side of the stage hung laurel wreaths topped by the dates 1885 and 1935. What happened there in 1885 has long been a matter of history: Dr. Leopold Damrosch was mortally ill with pneumonia and his 23-year-old son saved two performances by conducting for him. Last week Walter Damrosch was in the Metropolitan's pit once more, not to say farewell but to celebrate a golden jubilee...
...February 1933, stuporous Patricia Maguire developed pneumonia. An oxygen tent, adrenalin and antipneumococcus serum preserved her deathlike life...
Died. Warren Delano Robbins, 49, U. S. Minister to Canada, first cousin of President Roosevelt; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A career diplomat since 1909, he became chief of the Division of Protocol of the State Department in 1931, Minister to Canada...
Died. Alexander Moissi, 54, trilingual actor (Italian, French, German) famed for his performances under Max Reinhardt; of pneumonia; in Vienna. In 1927 and 1928 he played in the U. S. in Everyman, Tolstoy's The Living Corpse, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Ghosts...