Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Thomas J Maloney, 73. onetime (1911-24) president of P. Lorillard Co. (Old Golds, Helmar, Mogul. Murad); of pneumonia, complicated by heart disease and grief over his wife's death last fortnight; in Teaneck...
...Boston from 1879 to 1893. Awkward on the field, he was smart and nervy enough to become one of the best players of his time. He was almost uncatchable on the bases, became celebrated in the song ''Slide. Kelly, Slide." In a Boston hospital, fatally ill of pneumonia, he slipped off a stretcher. Cried Kelly: "This is my last slide." Said Mrs. John Masefield, in New York, of her crossing aboard the S. S. Mauretania with her famed husband. Poet Laureate of England and of the sea: "It was too uppy-downy, and Mr. Masefield was ill." Poet...
Died. Vladimir de Pachmann, 84, famed Russian pianist; peacefully, of pneumonia; in Rome, Italy. After 70 he worked out a new piano technique (straight arm from elbow to knuckle). Amazement at his own mastery marred his concerts ("Bravo! Bravo!" "You never heard anything like this." "Terrible! I will do better tomorrow."), drew crowds. Declaiming, gibbering, playing to a pile of unset jewels on the piano end, once to a pair of socks, bouncing on the piano stool, his shows were fine pianizing or fine Pachmannizing. Specialty: Chopin. A nickname (by the late James Gibbons Huneker) : "The Chopinzee...
Died. Gloria, 9, eldest of Broadway Colyumist Walter Winchell's two daughters; of septic pneumonia, Christmas night; in Manhattan...
Died. Henry Lane Wilson, 76, Ambassador to Mexico during the 1910 revolution and the assassination of President Madero (1913); of pneumonia; in Indianapolis. Son of a U. S. Minister to Venezuela, grandson of the founder of Lafayette (Ind.). he published Lafayette's Journal (1882-85), turned lawyer-banker in Spokane, lost much of his fortune in the 1893 panic...