Word: bronchially
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Died. Louis Henry Cardinal Lucon, Archbishop of Rheims, 87, War hero; of bronchial pneumonia; at Rheims. In 1914 at Rome, he heard of the bombardment of Rheims, hastened home to be with his endangered parishioners. Forbidden to entrain from Paris for Rheims, he motored there, slept in a cellar, tended the wounded, held Mass wherever he could, sometimes underground, remained until forced by military authority to retreat from the city in April 1918. In 1927 he consecrated the rebuilding Cathedral (not yet completed). To announce his death, the Cathedral's chimes tolled the number of his years...
Died. Mrs. Katherine Alexander Duer Blake, 50, onetime wife of telegraph Tycoon Clarence Hungerford Mackay and of Surgeon Joseph Augustus Blake, mother-in-law of Composer Irving Berlin "Always," "Russian Lullaby"); of bronchial pneumonia; in Manhattan...
Died. H.M. Queen Victoria of Sweden, first cousin of onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany; in Rome; of a pulmonary-bronchial ailment...
Died. Alexander Pollock Moore, 62, U. S. Ambassador to Peru, U. S. Ambassador-designate to Poland; at Los Angeles: of bronchial pneumonia. A native Pittsburghian, he rose from copy boy and reporter to be at various times editor of the Pittsburgh Press, the Pittsburgh Leader. In 1912 he married Beauty Lillian Russell, was devoted to her until her death in, 1921. In 1928 he purchased the New York Daily Mirror (tabloid), sold it six months later. At his deathbed was Cinemactress Marion Davies, whose ranch he had been visiting...
...Weather Bureau's William Jackson Humphreys coined to emphasize how technically impure is the air man breathes. Always in the atmosphere are bits of rock, vegetable fibre, litter, salt (over oceans), sulphuric acid (from soft coal chimneys and volcanoes), nitric acid (from lightning), meteoritic ash. The bronchial tubes get rid of most of such debris with almost no harm to the body...