Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...serving on the three-decker Queen. His grandfather, Thomas Fremantle, captained the Neptune at Trafalgar (1805) under Lord Nelson. His son, Admiral Sir Sydney Robert Fremantle, retired last year. Admiral Sir Edmund's snowy whiskers often festooned a royal carriage at the opening of Parliament. On his gist birthday he criticized the wary tactics of Admiral Jellicoe at Jutland (1916). "When you see ships," he stated, "you are supposed to fight them. I did in my day, and we took risks...
...shrill and crackling hail greeted Herbert Hoover when he and Mrs. Hoover joined Thomas Alva Edison's 82nd-birthday party at the Edison estate near Fort Myers, Fla., early last week. It was deaf Mr. Edison yelling: "Hello, fisherman...
...Robert Lampoon, of course. Or so Bob told a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. The maitre d'hotel and fountain-head of humor for the funny paper on Mt. Auburn Street was warming his hands over a cup of Arthur's coffee and contemplating the prospect of having a birthday. As taciturn as his prototype, President Coolidge, the Lampoon jester forced the reporter to pry his secret from...
Among the three hundred and sixty-five other days that come but once every year, the 22nd of February is one of the more pleasant variety. March has an unfortunate habit of producing such unpleasantnesses as theses, hour examinations and overdue blizzards in amazing quantity, and Washington's birthday furnishes a welcome calm before the storms...
...Hoovers boarded Manhattan Banker Jeremiah Milbank's yacht Saunterer and cruised away at slow speed for the Florida Keys, for Fort Myers and a birthday party with their great and good friend Thomas A. Edison. Mr. Hoover planned to go on around to the West Coast and try for an early-running tarpon...