Word: pneumonia
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With the disappearance of the moisture so prevalent in Cambridge last Friday, and the gratifying results of medicinal draughts upon the Vagabond's imminent pneumonia--now happily he is out of danger and once more able to set pen to paper--a problem confronts him; or rather be it admitted, a problem did confront him until very recently. In a word he has decided to quit the hallowed shades of Sever, the exalted glories of Emerson--in short the fair, silvan banks of the winding crystal Charles itself--and bask in Bermuda for the rest of this miserable, cold weather...
Died. James Cox Brady, 45, able financier, lavish host, important Catholic; in Manhattan, after five days' illness, of pneumonia. His father, Anthony N. Brady, (died 1913) accumulated $80,000,000 by organizing public utilities and on the Stock Exchange; the son, with his brother Nicholas F., increased the family fortune. He supported many charities, chiefly Catholic; once he sold all his race horses and gave the proceeds away. For his benefactions Pope Pius XI made him a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory and a private chamberlain of the Cape and Sword; last December King Vittorio Emanuele...
Died. Pauline Welch, 34, onetime (1912-17) wife of Harry Conway (Bud) Fisher, famed cartoonist ("Mutt & Jeff"); in Baltimore; of pneumonia...
Died. Sam L. Warner, 40, son of a Russian immigrant shoemaker, vice president of Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc. (cinema producers), in Los Angeles; of pneumonia, following a sinus infection. At 16, he and brother Albert Warner, displayed "The Great Train Robbery", famed one-reeler, in lofts and stores of Pennsylvania and Ohio towns. Later they rented a store in Newcastle, Pa., installed 99 chairs, from an undertaker's parlor, conducted one of the first cinema theatres. If there was a funeral, the cinema patrons stood. Last May the Vitaphone Corporation became a subsidiary to Warner Brothers...
Died. Francis Lyman Hine, 76, capitalist, banker ($50,000,000), onetime (1909-22) president of the First National Bank of New York, since then chairman of the executive committee; at Glen Cove, L. L; of heart disease and pneumonia...