Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a prominent U.S. citizen died, at the age of 69, from pneumonia following an appendectomy. The press noted, and truthfully, that his personality had been distinguished by its calmness, lack of ostentation, generosity and scrupulous honesty. It was a unique character to give a man who for 40 years had been one of the biggest men on Broadway. Sam Henry Harris had staged his last production...
...November, he arrived in the U.S. from his villa in Switzerland. Since then, Paderewski spent himself making public appeals for money for starving Poles. Last week, ill of a cold, against his doctor's orders he made one more appearance in New Jersey. As a result he contracted pneumonia and two days later, in his Manhattan hotel, he died. At the suggestion of President Roosevelt, he will be honored by burial in Arlington National Cemetery until his remains can be transferred to a peaceful Poland...
...Fishbein telegraphed doctors all over the U. S. to warn them. Immediately he received seven wires in reply, telling of suspicious cases in which the drug had been used. Besides the Missouri patient, one baby had died. Several other pneumonia patients who were given the tablets had died, but the doctors were not positive that the drug had killed them. At week's end A. M. A. had not yet estimated the exact number of casualties, had begun to suspect a second lot of tablets, MP118...
Last week, in a night session, the nine Coalitionist Senators walked out, left Popular Democratic Party Senators without a quorum. Muñoz Marin staggered from his sickbed to the Senate chamber. Doors and windows were closed to protect him from pneumonia. The crowded galleries set up a cheer. Muñoz Marin could not take the chair, sat wearing an overcoat and muffler, stifling his coughing in a handkerchief. The hall grew silent. With great difficulty, an expression of profound sadness on his features, he began: "Nothing, nothing, nothing can paralyze the Populares' task. I will be here...
Died. Marguerite Nichols Roach, 45. wife of Movie Producer Hal Roach; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles. Last October Mrs. Roach sought a separation order after 25 years' marriage, said: "If Hal wants his freedom I think he should have...