Word: 97th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lake Placid, N. Y., at a celebration of his 97th birthday, Negro Lyman Epps stood up, quavered "Blow Ye the Trumpets, Blow.'' Nonagenarian Epps remembered that he had sung the same song at John Brown's funeral...
...Lebrun promoted him to the top-notch rank of Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. Replied U. S. Citizen Rockefeller, 62: "The praise should go to my father for two reasons. The first reason is that in early youth I learned from my father, who is approaching his 97th birthday in the best of health, that the greatest satisfaction comes from rendering a worthwhile service. . . . The other reason is that it is only because of my father's unprecedented generosity to me in early life that what I have done has been possible...
Visiting Washington last week, the Right Honorable Alderman Alfred Byrne, Lord Mayor of Dublin, sat down to listen to a radio broadcast of the 97th running of the Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree. A reporter asked him who he thought would win. Lord Mayor Byrne called for pencil & pad, puffed out his cheeks, wrote down his selections: 1, Reynoldstown; 2, Blue Prince; 3, Thomond II. The announcer said: "They...
Celebrating his 97th birthday, Col. Sir Fitzroy Maclean, chief of Clan Maclean, received at his home on the Isle of Mull a telegram of greeting from the Duke of Argyll, chief of Clan Campbell, Thus ended a feud which began 187 years ago when a Maclean chief suspected his wife of peccadillos with a Campbell...