Word: pneumonia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Eldest was Christopher, a prodigy in mathematics and music, who matriculated at Harvard at 14, graduated with honors. Even when full-grown he preferred to play with children, to whom he used truthfully to say that he was a case of arrested development. He died young of pneumonia, in an institution. Second was Edward who became a professor of music, and now teaches in the Eastman School of Music in Rochester. Youngest son was Stephen, an asthmatic little fellow on whom the children of other professors picked most, thereby provoking Philosopher Royce to write six-page letters of protest...
Died. Oliver Peter Heggie, 57, Australian-born character actor of stage (Androcks & the Lion, The Truth About Blayds) and screen (The Letter, The Swan, The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu); of pneumonia; in Hollywood, a few days after completing the role of Dr. MacIntyre in the cinema, The Prisoner of Shark Island...
Died. Henry Justin Smith, 60, on the Chicago Daily News since 1899 (except for 1924-26, when he assisted University of Chicago's president), managing editor since 1926; of pneumonia; in Evanston, III. Under his tutelage developed many well-known newshawks, including Ben Hecht, Howard Vincent O'Brien, Edgar Ansel Mowrer, Poet Carl Sandburg...
...Club has not been suspended as is intimated in some Boston newspapers this morning nor has there been any stipulation made about new elections. The choice of new officers usually takes place in January although a special election will have to be held on account of the death from pneumonia of Frederic M. Miller '37, the newly-chosen president...
Other Rinehart & Dennis officials issued statements in which they claimed that an epidemic of pneumonia, not silicosis, was responsible for scores of deaths at Gauley Bridge. They charged that damage suits were filed by some men proved not to have worked in the tunnel and by others who worked only an hour or two. According to the apologists, the death list from various diseases did not exceed 50 out of some 2,000 workers...