Word: 75th
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...pidgin English and put in the innocent mouth of old Kung Fu-tze (Confucius). Most of the people who parroted "Confucius say" did not know that one of China's most distinguished statesmen. Finance Minister Dr. H. H. Kung, brother-in-law of Madame Chiang Kaishek, is a 75th-generation direct descendant of the great philosopher. Nor did they know the whereabouts of Dr. Kung's handsome, shy, studious, English-speaking, 23-year-old son David ("Prince David"). The latter was something almost no one knew. He had disappeared...
Last week The Nation celebrated its 75th birthday (five months prematurely) with a 96-page anniversary issue. Still a champion of one particular kind of inquiry-i.e., by-line exposés and rascal-kicking-The Nation proudly printed a message from Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Wrote the President: "I think no one would ever accuse The Nation of seeking to become a popular organ. . . ." But Founder Godkin would have suffered a severe shock could he have seen last week how far The Nation had gone along the road on which he started it. For Godkin's politics were...
Professor Parker's 75th birthday was December 39. The reception was post pound because of the University's Christmas vacation period...
...honor of George R. Parker, professor of Zoology, emerlins, on the occasion of his 75th birthday, a reception will be held this afternoon at the Faculty Club About 400 colleagues, former students and special guests will attend...
Interviewed on her 75th birthday as she sat on a sofa draped with a tiger skin in her pink-walled London apartment, Elinor ("It") Glyn, British novelist who writes nowadays only when she has "passionate thoughts that will help humanity," explained: "I have an immense passion for tigers. When I go to a zoo I have a most peculiar effect on them...