Word: sanatoriums
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...Buenos Aires sanatorium last week things began to look up for darkly pretty, tuberculous, 22-year-old María Beatriz ("Mariquita") del Valle-Inclán. Many newspaper-reading Argentines were happy for her. It seemed at last that she might be saved both from tuberculosis and from the vengeance of Spain's Francisco Franco -which extends even to sick young girls...
...diamond for a rumored $154,000 in 1911, gave it to his wife, Evalyn Walsh McLean, mining heiress (Father Struck It Rich). In the early '20s they entertained spectacularly in Washington, were cronies of President Harding and his Cabinet members. Adjudged insane in 1933, McLean died in a sanatorium. His will, made in 1931, left $300,000 to Cinemactress Marion Davies' sister, Rose, for "her association and affection"; $5,000 to each of his three children, and dower rights to his widow...
Editor Marshall dropped out of sight with astonishing completeness when the No Foreign War Committee closed up shop two months ago. So isolated last week was Isolationist Marshall that even his own family made a mystery of his whereabouts. Persistent rumor said he was in a sanatorium somewhere in Wisconsin. But his family-including his five daughters-refused to confirm the rumor. Family friends were more specific. Said one of them: "You know he went off the deep end for a while. But Verne's all right now, and he's sorry for all the things...
Distraught, Conductor Klemperer went to Rye, N.Y. one weekend last March, asked for a room in a private sanatorium. Next morning he left, and the sanatorium director. Dr. Daniel J. Kelly, notified police, who issued a nine-State alarm describing Conductor Klemperer as "dangerous and insane," bearing a cane which he "likes to use on policemen." Next day the conductor was picked up in Morristown, N.J. by police who grabbed first the cane, then him. Jailed for 26 hours, he was released when his wife flew East from California. A psychiatrist examined Conductor Klemperer, pronounced him sane but "nervous, temperamental...
...Joyces (wife Nora, son Giorgio) lived in Paris. His daughter Lucia, who suffered from a nervous disorder, was in a sanatorium near St. Nazaire. A devoted father, Joyce worried much about Lucia, spent a good part of the income left him by Admirer Harriet Weaver on Lucia's doctor and sanatorium bills. When war broke out, he hurried to St. Nazaire...