Word: uremia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Margaret Woodrow Wilson, 57, eldest of the late President's three daughters; of uremia; in Pondicherry, India. The image of her father, in early years, Miss Wilson was a concert singer, welfare worker; in 1939 she became absorbed in the writings of Sri Aurobindo, moved to his Indian religious colony...
Died. Otis Skinner, 83, U.S. stage star for nearly 40 years; father of Actress Cornelia Otis Skinner; of uremia; in Manhattan. Known best for his high-flavored characterization in romantic roles (Kismet, The Honor of the Family, Blood and Sand), he played some 325 parts in his career, appeared in 16 of Shakespeare's plays, produced and directed more than 30 shows...
When Summer 1914 opens, M. Thibault, racked by spasms of pain and terror, has died of convulsive uremia-a deathbed scene which Martin du Gard writes with the clean brutality of a clinical treatise. Jacques, matured and forceful, is a respected leader in a colony of revolutionists in Switzerland. He has decided that what he wants is a part in a revolutionary world change, but his soul is still troubled. He has a consuming pity for the mass of men, a great contempt for their rulers, but he lacks a blind faith in revolutionary slogans and formulas, and worse...
Only after his death did Greece announce that for two weeks its stocky little 69-year-old Premier-Dictator had been fighting for life. A tonsillectomy on Jan. 18 was followed by blood poisoning and finally uremia. When three blood transfusions failed to revive him, a destroyer was dispatched to the Island of Tinos for the miracle-working Holy Icon of the Virgin which 25 years before had been brought to the bedside of King Constantine...
Died. Evander Berry Wall, 79, New York-born Beau Brummel, last and most elegant dandy of the Gay Nineties; of uremia; in Monte Carlo. A legend in his own time, recognizable by his high spread-eagle collars, violent waistcoats, blimpish mustache, red chowchows, he moved to France in 1912, continued to fulfill his destiny by hobnobbing with royalty, haunting race tracks and salons...