Word: pneumonia
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...theatrical district off Broadway. Lucio had caught a nasty cold during the motor trip. Soon he called in Dr. Benjamin Fabricant, a young physician four years out of New York University Medical School who had an office in the Godinos' apartment building. When the cold proved to be pneumonia, Dr. Fabricant sent sick Lucio and healthy Simplicio to York Hospital, a small private institution. The Press discovered the case, piled into the hospital, photographed the strange sickbed, the grieving wives, reported that Simplicio was ravenous for a cigaret, irked that Lucio's illness prohibited him from having...
...found the Scottish Nationalist Party at the age of 76. With all this he wrote some 30 books, publishing the first when he was 43. He had returned to Buenos Aires to see an edition of W. H. Hudson's works through the press when he died of pneumonia on March 20, of this year...
Died. Charles Partlow ("Chic") Sale, 51, rube vaudevillian and author (The Specialist); of lobar pneumonia; in Hollywood. Originally a bewhiskered mimic of old hicks, he was famed for his earthy, hayseed wit, his tearful portrayal of a G.A.R. veteran scuffling down the road to the poorhouse. Proud of his resemblance to Abraham Lincoln, he made the privy theatrically acceptable...
Died. Alfred William Erickson, 60, Manhattan adman (McCann-Erickson), one of the founders of the Audit Bureau of Circulation, board chairman of Congoleum-Nairn, Inc. (linoleum); of pneumonia; in Pasadena, Calif...
...Bermuda. Democratic Boss James Aloysius Farley, to Ireland. National Republican Chairman John Daniel Miller Hamilton, to Manhattan, to worry about an estimated $1,300,000 party deficit. Vice President John Nance Garner, in Uvalde, Tex., stayed put, as did Senator William Edgar Borah, in Boise, Idaho, after narrowly escaping pneumonia. Governor Alf Landon, duckhunting. New Jersey's Senator-elect William Henry Smathers, hunting in Berwick, Pa., barely missed being shot by his secretary. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., to Sea Island Beach, Ga. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, to Buenos Aires for the Pan-American Conference. Anna...