Word: pneumonia
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...difficulty of heating their high-ceilinged rooms, bus riders shivered and told each other that it was the worst winter in two generations, the poor just shivered. By week's end more than 90 were dead of the cold alone-no one knew how many more of pneumonia...
...easy. It had to be someone recently dead, someone whose family would not object, someone who looked like an officer. Just as Montagu had decided that he might have to snatch a body from a graveyard, he found his corpse: a young man who had just died of pneumonia and whose relatives gave their permission on condition that his name never be divulged...
...Whigs because, as a Jeffersonian, he was a nuisance to them in the Senate. A month after he was inaugurated, Tyler was playing marbles in a Williamsburg street when Daniel Webster's son brought him the news that President William Henry Harrison was dead of pneumonia. Tyler picked up his marbles, went to Washington, became a better...
Died. The Rev. Francis Xavier Talbot, S.J., 64, longtime (1936-44) editor of the Jesuit weekly America (circ. 33,000), onetime president of Baltimore's Loyola College (1947-51) and chaplain-counselor of the Legion of Decency's movie-review committee; of pneumonia; in Washington...
Died. Eugene O'Neill. 65. American playwright (Mourning Becomes Electra, Ah, Wilderness!); of bronchial pneumonia; in Boston (see THEATER...