Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, 84, longtime Archbishop of Boston; of pneumonia; in Boston...
...know anything about art, you don't read poetry, you don't care for music; what are you interested in?" Said he: "Currency." He was then Lord President of the Council, No. 2 man in Winston Churchill's War Cabinet, and had put his clammy, pneumonia-breeding Anderson bomb shelters into nearly every Briton's backyard. He moved to the Exchequer after Sir Kingsley Wood died...
...victims of heart attacks stay in bed for six weeks. Very often a doctor finds a patient with failure of the left side of the heart sitting up in a chair and orders him to bed, "whereupon the patient proceeds to suffocate." Another lethal effect of bed rest : pneumonia caused by collection of fluid in the lungs. This is why sick oldsters should not stay in bed "one hour longer than necessary." They should sit up part of the time and let such fluid run down toward their feet and ankles...
George Franklin Slosson, recovering at 90 from a spell of pneumonia and nervous prostration, has been a little off his billiard game lately. His high runs have been down around 60. In a week or so he expects to be shooting runs of 100 again...
...best regards to Warner, the P.M. kid, who is at home recuperating from a case of pneumonia. Bob's home address is 253 West 72nd Street, New York, N. Y., in case you've an extra minute and a postal card...