Word: 21st
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commonwealth, the room where Macbeth murdered Duncan, another room known as the Hangman's Room because the last two people to sleep there committed suicide. It has also a long and hairy-armed ghost and a Family Secret, told to every wide-eyed heir of Strathmore on his 21st birthday. The Secret is the location of a hidden chamber. What is in that chamber nobody knows...
Career: Scion of well-to-do New England Quakers tracing their American lineage back to 1640, he, aged 2, was removed from his birthplace just off "upper sth Avenue" (21st Street) to Stamford, Conn. From private school he went to Yale (A.B. 1873) and Columbia (LL.B. 1876). After a brief clerkship in New York, he returned to Stamford to do legal work for Yale & Towne, famed locksmiths. Today he is Yale & Towne's board chairman. In 1879 he married Frances Hoyt who bore him two daughters, Louise and Katharine. In 1904 he dropped his corporation law practise long enough...
...Princess Juliana was impressed by these hints last week, the Court did not admit it. The 21st birthday passed without formal observance, by special request of H. R. H. Busy, bustling and housewifely (although no wife), she personally supervised the loading of her personal belongings into moving vans, sped after them in her unostentatious limousine to the Huis Ten Bosch. Standing in a vast, majestic park on the outskirts of The Hague, the ''House in the Wood" holds treasure which sedate Dutch Royalty values most-privacy...
Last year about this time, at Pensacola, Fort Myers, Jacksonville, Miami Beach and Pinehurst a young pro named Horton Smith, whom no one had ever heard of before, began to win tournaments. He went abroad with the Ryder Cup Team, and on May 22 - his 21st birthday - won the professional championship of France. People were saying then that within a year or two he would be National Open champion, but Horton Smith, not flustered by the publicity he was getting, kept going from one club to another, playing golf. In the last 16 months he has won 13 major tournaments...
Globule," by the premier parodist of England, Editor Squire of the London Mercury, when "sturdy tenantry" assembled at Norman grey Arundel Castle to celebrate the 21st birthday of the Premier Duke and Earl of England, shy, none-too-bright Bernard Marmaduke FitzAlan- Howard, Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Arundel, Baron Maltravers, Earl of Surrey, Baron FitzAlan, Clun and Oswaldestre, Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal and Chief Butler of England (TIME, June 10). The diffident Duke, who in addition to his titles is the chief Roman Catholic peer in Great Britain, has been schooled entirely by private nurses and tutors...