Word: pneumonia
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...Rudyard Kipling briefly revisited New York and nearly died there of pneumonia, both Kaiser Wilhelm II and Queen Victoria asking to be kept informed. His more spiteful enemies said that during this illness "the writer died although the man recovered." One critic yearned publicly for the time "when the rudyards cease from kipling." But it was not to come for 37 years. During the World War that which had been Imperial England was bled until there were such things as a Labor Cabinet, a British General Strike, a Depression and 11,000,000 British votes for the League of Nations...
...Tapps' family physician examined the girl, who thrice had had pneumonia. He found her pulse normal, her reflexes satisfactory, declared she was in a state of autohypnosis, responding only to religious stimuli. Thus when the Full Salvationists sang Have Thine Own Way, Lord, a newshawk took Shirley's pulse, found it increased from 93 to 103. And Shirley smiled dreamily for a cameraman when she was asked, "Shirley, do you love Jesus?", by her friend Elmer Wood...
...Tuscaloosa, Ala., a family council of kin of Mrs. Harriet Elizabeth Scott, 75, who had just died of pneumonia, decided to bury her in Little Sandy Cemetery near her Taylorsville home five miles away. Bitterly her son Hugh, 57, World War veteran protested that her dying wish had been to be buried in nearby Nazareth Cemetery. Overruled, he stalked into the night. Near dawn he returned, burst in among the kinsmen keeping the death watch, brandished a shotgun, picked up his mother's body and ran outside. He flung the body across the pommel of his horse...
...about recessing until time for the President's speech. Republican Senator Borah, 70, expressed his "congratulations and esteem" on the eve of Democratic Senator Glass's 78th birthday (see p. 47). Members felicitated dressy old James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois on his narrow escape from death from pneumonia in Moscow last autumn. There were even a good-natured few willing to listen to "The Man" Bilbo expatiate on his "Dream House" in Mississippi. With the introduction of just one bill, the Pittman Neutrality measure, the Senate decorously ended its first session. That Evening the President appeared promptly behind...
Died. Samuel Ryder, 77, head of Ryder " Sons, seedsmen, donor in 1926 of the Ryder Cup for biennial competition between British and U. S. professional golfers; of pneumonia; in London...