Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, these desires were strangely inter-vexed. Mr. Vare was observing his 61st birthday in Atlantic City, N. J., when a message arrived summoning him to appear again before Senator Reed's investigating committee in Washington, D. C. The Reed strategy was this: get the Senate to take up the Vare case again, and since discussion of a Senator's seat is a subject of highest privilege, this postpones and perhaps prevents the ratification of the Kellogg-Briand Treaty...
When ten-year-olds have birthdays they must have parties. True to its years, then, was the Cleveland Orchestra when last week at home it celebrated the tenth year of its existence, the tenth also under Conductor Nikolai Sokoloff and Manager Adella Prentiss Hughes. There was a birthday concert at the Auditorium with the program which was given on Dec. n, 1918. There was a birthday dance for the musicians and their friends. There was a birthday luncheon for principals and patrons, with wrist watches and eulogies for Conductor Sokoloff and Manager Hughes, and a cake with ten candles. Patron...
...Berlin Lilli Lehmann, famed Wagnerian soprano, celebrated her Both birthday. Special gift was the title of "professor" sent her by President Michael Hainisch of Austria for her many great performances at the Vienna Imperial Opera, for her more recent services to the annual Salzburg festivals...
...Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, of Pelham, N. Y.; from intestinal obstruction after a lingering illness, in Manhattan. Mr. Jones, native of Carthage, N.Y., was successively mill boy, factory worker, messenger, typewriter salesman, Standard Oilman (35 years). A tireless worker, he abjured recreations until his soth birthday when his fellow directors gave him golf clubs. He was elected to the chairmanship in 1925; simultaneously his health began to fail...
...that, when he was 63, John Tyler's wife bore him a son in Virginia. Seven years later she bore a daughter to 70-year-old John Tyler. The son, baptized Lyon Gardner Tyler, lived to be President-Emeritus of William and Mary college. Shortly after his 70th birthday Lyon Gardner took a second wife (Sue Ruffin, whose ancestor fired the first gun at Fort Sumter) and before he was 73 she bore him a son. Last fortnight 75-year-old Doctor Tyler became the father of another son. Thus were 139 years spanned and spent from the first...