Word: uremia
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...America's rich and famous, displaying 24-carat charm, matchless discretion ("We are the confessor of our clients"), and some of the world's most dazzling baubles, among them the famed Thiers pearl necklace, purchased by Cartier from the Louvre in 1924 for $760,000; of uremia; in Geneva...
...molten metal under pressure between the halves of a steel die that proved quicker and more precise than hand-poured sand castings, thus paving the way for mass production of all manner of products and making Doehler Die Casting Co. (later Doehler-Jarvis) the biggest in the field; of uremia; in Manhattan...
Died. Benjamin Franklin Fairless, 71, fast-moving boss of giant U.S. Steel for nearly 20 years, who substituted a candid personal charm for the rough flamboyance of an earlier generation of steelmakers; of pleurisy complicated by uremia; in Ligonier, Pa. Born the son of an immigrant Welsh coal miner, he got his first taste of capitalism as a newsboy, worked his way to an engineering degree, climbed rapidly with common-sense solutions to production problems and a knack for mediating high-level disputes. As president of U.S. Steel from 1938 to 1953 and board chairman from...
...wife. But when it was whispered that Marie herself took a lover-a former German prisoner of war 30 years her junior-Léon apparently protested. Several days later, after becoming violently ill over lunch, Léon died; local doctors certified that death was due to uremia...
...Club from 1912 to 1933, who sounded a serious note throughout the collegiate musical world by substituting Mendelssohn for Mrs. Casey's Boarding House in the club's repertory, led the troupe on a European tour in 1921 and in 35 concerts with the Boston Symphony; of uremia; in Brant Rock, Mass...