Word: sanatorium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lila Lee, saucer-eyed, doll-faced heroine of the silents, was "feeling fine" after two years at a Saranac Lake, N.Y. tuberculosis sanatorium, was set to be up & about (in Manhattan) next week...
...Neill entered a tuberculosis sanatorium, spent his time there reading Ibsen and Strindberg. Cured, he took a course (paid for by O'Neill Sr.) at Professor George Pierce Baker's famed playwriting laboratory at Harvard. Next summer, the Provincetown Players, a little group of earnest amateurs, put on O'Neill's Bound East for Cardiff...
...stripe suits-the best I saw in all Russia-smoked Lucky Strikes and talked with crisp, good-humored confidence. Since his job is the running of all industry in the Ukraine, it was hardly surprising that he suffered from stomach ulcers. When he was away for treatment at a sanatorium in the Caucasus, Khomyak had a good deal of difficulty in getting quick decisions out of the rest of the Council ('They just shoved my memos under their desk blotters'), but when Senin got back to town, the memos were pulled out again and things began to happen...
...while he was conducting a rehearsal, a railing back of him gave way and he fell over backwards, striking his head severely at the base of the skull. A brain tumor operation in 1939 left him partially paralyzed. Then in 1941 he registered at a Rye, N.Y. sanatorium for a rest. The second day he walked out, and the sanatorium director notified the police, who issued a widely publicized nine-state alarm describing Conductor Klemperer as "dangerous and insane...
...about one-tenth of its annual budget, for an anti-T.B. campaign; its able Governor, Dr. Ernest Gruening (pronounced greening) had declared a state of emergency. Now would Congress meet the request of the Office of Indian Affairs for $2,775,000 to start building a 200-bed sanatorium...