Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Today is President Eliot's birthday. And not alone those who have known him here at Harvard but those who throughout the nation have been influenced by his great work as a moving force in American education will rejoice to learn that he has added another to his many years of noble and useful living. For Dr. Eliot is much more to Harvard and to the world of letters than a famous educator. He is a part of the best in New England tradition in American tradition...
...grandson George V. Luminous paragraphs culled from the Queen's earnest pages: Of Wilhelm II (her grandson, at the age of seven [1866], five years before his Hohenzollern grandfather, Wilhelm I, was proclaimed Emperor of Germany [1871] after the Franco Prussian War). "Dear little Willie's birthday ... a clever, dear, good little child. . . . May God preserve him and may he grow up good, clever, liberal minded in his views, worthy of his beloved grandpa.† who was so anxious about him that he should not grow up into a conceited Prussian." Of Wilhelm II (in 1877, eleven years...
Elihu Root celebrated his 81st birthday in Manhattan by holding no festivities, saying "It's just an ordinary...
Cables, telegrams, letters, telephone tinkles and callers poured into the home of Dr. Samuel Hybbinette of Stockholm last week. It was the Doctor's 50th birthday. The thousands congratulating him were chiefly medical colleagues and onetime patients, whose fondness and admiration were not occasioned by Dr. Hybbinette's superlative surgical skill and his magnetic personality alone. Nor had he performed some new miracle with his keen scalpel. But one and all praised him for a habit that he has, a talented habit uncommon among surgeons. Dr. Hybbinette has a rich tenor voice. He has won many a prize...
Died. Henry Holt, 86, famed founder (1873) of the publishing firm which bears his name, writer of various books dealing with the cosmos and of Garrulities of an Octogenarian Editor; at Manhattan, following an attack of bronchitis. On his 80th birthday, Mr. Holt said: "Any young man who drinks whisky is a fool, and any old man who doesn't is another...