Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because on that day President Coolidge will visit Cuba? Because on that day good will in the Western Hemisphere is to be promoted by the Pan-American Congress at Havana? Is Jan. 16 a national holiday, a hero's birthday, an armistice...
...masters of Communist Russia made public, contemptuously, the diary of the onetime Tsar of all the Russias, written at Tobolsk. On Nov. 14, when Nikolai Lenin's dictatorship was six days old, Diarist Nicholas Romanov was still in ignorance of its existence and jotted placidly: "Today is the birthday of dear mama* and the 23rd anniversary of our marriage. At noon we heard prayers. The choir muddled and sang false, doubtless from lack of practice." Three days later the shattering news reached even Tobolsk. Nicholas the Last pondered well, then wrote: "It is disgusting to read in the papers...
...post-war" theory, derived less from life than from fiction which showed the undergraduate wallowing drunkenly in the backwash of the late conflict, finds in him no protagonist. Neither is he of a mind with octogenarians who state in birthday interviews that the present generation ushers in the dawn of a new and marvelous day. He says merely that "intellectually and socially, we have not yet caught up with our own inventions and discoveries;" and belives that, all things considered, the "matter-of-fact acceptance" of the new world by the undergraduate promises well...
...York Dinner is but one of 200 dinners and meetings, which will be held throughout the United States on the occasion of the former President's birthday...
Last week two premieres were announced for a double bill. Die Maien- konigen was the curtain-raiser, a pastoral meringue, mixed & baked, it is said, by no less a man than Gluck for the birthday palate of Maria Theresa. Then came Richard Strauss's Feuersnot...