Word: 21st
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...family and a few close friends gathered in Balmoral Castle, Scotland, to help Princess Margaret celebrate her 21st birthday. The highlight of her coming-of-age party: the cutting of the royal cake, a 30-pound, twelve-sided baker's delight, each side decorated with a sign of the zodiac, the main panel showing Leo, the Princess' own sign, and the top iced with the pattern of her personal standard and planted with 21 silver candles, silver roses and Scotch thistles. Among the guests: Billy Wallace, Lord Ogilvy and the Earl of Dalkeith-her three favorite suitors...
...Zodiac: "Margaret, whose birthday falls on the 21st of August, is on the bridge between Leo and Virgo-a borderline case between the strong and the demure...
King George's vivacious younger daughter has been a favorite of the British public ever since she first made the papers at the age of one day. In honor of Princess Margaret's forthcoming 21st birthday this month, London's Daily Express borrowed a first-reader technique to explain her life in ABCs. Sample rubrics...
...21st Century our people doubtless will be squint-eyed, hunchbacked and fond of the dark. Conversation will be a lost art. People will simply tell each other jokes...But why am I carrying on like this? Chances are that the grandchild of the Television Age won't know how to read this...
...special class. "It is in some senses the first truly postwar class, since it entered the university . . . after demobilization was complete . . . It is the first class to graduate into the second half of the 20th Century. It is the first class that will hold its 50th reunion in the 21st Century, in the year 2001." But on almost every other count, this year's commencement orators seemed to agree, the Class of 1951 was not so different after...