Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Your tribute to the memory of this great, good man was to publish an article under the head EDUCATION, in which you pictured an attic recluse spending his leisure hours in demoniac glee watching spiders fight. The article reminds us of President Coolidge's Washington's Birthday address in which our worthy President took little cognizance of the truly great things that our First President embodied, and centred his attention on the incidental fact that Washington was a good businessman. Ask the writers of the article to clean the spiderwebs from their minds by reading a little about...
...birthday last week, and even the Hearst feature service found that there was news in the famed New England poet's son who, at 86, has the keenest and busiest mind in the Supreme Court. "Work keeps me young," said Justice Holmes. "If I should quit, I would die." It has been wisely said that Plato dreamed of such men as this when he chose scholars and philosophers, tried by the world and by age, to govern his ideal Republic...
Married. Col. Charles Goodnight, "Father of the Texas Panhandle," to Corinne Goodnight, 26, (no relative) on his 91st birthday; at Clarendon...
...From the Speaker's platform of the House of Representatives, President Coolidge delivered a birthday eulogy of George Washington. He did not flay the modern biographers. Efficiency, said he, was the watchword of Washington's greatness. An inconspicuous radio microphone started President Coolidge's methodical voice on its way throughout the U. S. and to Europe...
Coincident with his sailing was his 60th birthday on which uncelebrated occasion he remarked: "I have been fortunate in having success come to me, and still more fortunate in not having success chill or isolate me. A kind fate has endowed me with the combined gifts of practical qualities on the one hand, and appreciation of spiritual things, love of beauty and sympathy with my fellow beings on the other. Life is as vivid to me, the great adventure of living as thrilling, as in my early youth...