Word: 41st
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majesty at once set to work signing messages of congratulation to British near-centenarians which will be delivered on the 100th birthday of each. His Majesty commanded that his own 41st birthday this week be not celebrated or observed. He commanded that he shall be crowned May 12, 1937, the day on which the Duke of Windsor was to have been crowned. The 300 Privy Councilors were asked by all their intimates one question: "Does he still stutter?" No Privy Councilor could be found willing to be quoted as saying that His Majesty does not still stutter...
...Linton, Ind., John ("Old John") Eddy, 77, celebrated the 41st anniversary of his emigration from England, since when he has drunk no water, because U. S. water made him "violently ill." His substitutes: tea, coffee, beer, "a moderate amount of stronger drink...
...neither Mrs. Sloane nor the physicians she sent to tend him realized it when the Spring meeting of the Westchester Racing Association opened at flowery Belmont Park four days later.* Flecked by tragedy, Mrs. Sloane's colors continued their phenomenal gallop from prize to prize. In the 41st running of the Toboggan Handicap, Belmont's opener, Mrs. Sloane's favorite horse, Okapi, was entered. Mack Garner was up -"Colonel" Mack Garner since he had won the Kentucky Derby on Cavalcade two weeks before. Riding high on Brookmeade's luck, Garner, a comparative dodderer among jockeys...
...Garden City, L. I., Missionary Eli Stanley Jones addressed the 41st annual Foreign Missions Conference of North America (84 boards), which sent him and others touring the U. S. last autumn (TIME, Dec. 11). Said Dr. Jones: "I will go back to India heartened and convinced that the soul of the church is sound. . . . There is an undertone of craving for Christian unity. . . . We must get rid of the cleavage between denominations. No Christianity can compete with Marxian Communism and Islam that has race exclusiveness at heart...
...learning processes is to phonograph every sound a child makes from birth until it begins to talk coherently. That speech study waits on some interested philanthropist providing a few thousand dollars. A merry account of doughty Johnny and timid Jimmy Dr. McGraw took to Chicago last week for the 41st convention of the American Psychological Association. Her gayety was refreshing there. For the psychologists were squabbling about the Psychological Corporation. Dr. James McKeen Cattell, 73, pioneer U. S. psychologist, formed Psychological Corp. twelve years ago. This was one of several mixtures of scholarship and business which he developed after Columbia...