Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...machine was considered too slow to be of value in acute narcoses and too limited in its field for general purposes. Nonetheless, the Hammond machine has saved lives. It is the only one, says Dr. Hammond, "so far as I know, that has ever saved a life from pneumonia...
Died. Count Albert Apponyi, 86, Hungary's Grand Old Man and No. 1 League of Nations delegate; of pneumonia; in Geneva. A 6 ft.-6 in., spadebearded member of one of the foremost and oldest Magyar families (founded 1235), he long bickered against Habsburg absolutism, favored broadened suffrage. But in 1922 he declared for Habsburg's Otto as the "uncrowned" king of Hungary...
Died. Marie Adrienne Anne Victurnienne Clémentine de Rochechouart de Crussol, Dowager Duchess d'Uzes, 85, for 60 years France's foremost socialite, able huntswoman, sculptress, novelist, playwright; of pneumonia; at the home of her daughter Duchess de Luynes; in Dapierre, France. Relict and mother of France's senior dukes, she was spoken of in French society simply as "La Duchesse." Out of her immense Veuve Cliquot vineyard incomes she financed General Georges Boulanger's intrigue in the 1880's to return monarchy to France. After a youth as the "most beautiful, best-born...
...dangerous and did nothing, but "money gave him power and power is becoming to a man." Tom was gentle with her, kissed her a few times, then went away. Sally was heartbroken, tried taking a hot bath in her nightgown and sitting beside an open window, hoping to get pneumonia and die. She did not die, but a truck hit her one day and when she woke up she wanted to live. . . . Years later she met Tom in a speakeasy. "Of course I remember you. Do you know my husband...
Died. Sara Teasdale Filsinger, 48, U. S. poetess of nostalgia, Pulitzer prize-winner (1918); by drowning in her bathtub, following pneumonia, a nervous breakdown, a debate with her nurse on suicide technique; in Manhattan. Divorced in 1929 from Ernst B. Filsinger, foreign trade expert, onetime vice president of Royal Baking Powder Co., her prize-winning Love Songs included the stanza...