Word: uremia
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Died. Dr. Arthur E. Hertzler, 76, homespun country doctor and surgeon, author of the autobiographical bestseller, The Horse and Buggy Doctor; of uremia; in Halstead, Kans...
...escape. He had just started his tenth when he returned to the U.S. to conduct the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. He soon became ill with a streptococcus infection which developed into uremia. Gustav Mahler, composer of nine symphonies, returned to Vienna on a stretcher, and died there...
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...