Word: 21st
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...busy week-he was moving his department from the old State building* on Pennsylvania Avenue to the new War Department Building on 21st Street -Secretary Marshall also found time to write Molotov a note about Korea. He would be glad to begin negotiations looking toward an independent Korean Government, but only on the basis of the U.S. definition of democratic procedure...
Inexperienced. In Los Angeles, a young miss, on a vacation from Seaside, Ore., as a reward for not smoking until her 21st birthday, threw a cigaret butt out of a bedroom window, started a brush fire...
This week London debutantes were rushing off to their dancing academies to learn the new Royal Minuet, prepared as "a tribute to H.R.H. Princess Elizabeth on the occasion of her 21st birthday." The first part (with dance partners side by side, hands crossed in front) was a sprightly gavotte; after that came a quick waltz-step chorus to be danced in ballroom style...
...born in another century," mused Henry Agard Wallace, answering a poll by This Month magazine, "I would prefer the 21st, the 22nd, the 23rd or the 24th . . . assuming that we learn how to control atomic power for peace...
Apologies & Diamonds. Princess Elizabeth's 21st birthday party in Cape Town will be the last grand ceremonial of the African tour. There will be more salutes, more reviews, more fireworks, and another grand ball. There will be state presents for everyone: a gold box full of diamonds (to put on his Garter star) for the King; an engraved gold tea service for the Queen, 17 graduated diamonds for Margaret-and for Elizabeth herself, 21 graduated brilliant-cut diamonds interspersed with baguettes to string on a necklace. For Elizabeth that day will mean also a rise in income from...