Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There the celebration of Wilhelm II's 67th birthday (TIME, Feb. 8) was still under way. The former Kaiser embraced his son, whom he had not seen for two years, "with tears in his eyes." The one-time Crown Prince "displayed his usual gayety." Later, Wilhelm's consort, Hermine, donned "a striking pink and black silk gown and a diamond tiara." Thus attired, she welcomed Herr Mendelssohn, her husband's chief banker, and many a titled Dutch and German guest to "a grand reception, at which all present were...
...this "formerly royal" cavalcade roared down the drive and disappeared through the lodge gate, correspondents followed eagerly, prayed to the gods of journalism that Der Reise-Kaiser* might be going to polish off his birthday by returning to Germany. They were disappointed. After driving about the Dutch countryside at a nigh rate of speed for some time, the Hohenzollerns and the correspondents returned to Doorn...
Last week this most notorious of Queen Victoria's grandchildren made a gesture somewhat Edwardian in its expansiveness; he expended a sum estimated at 40,000 florins ($16,000) upon the celebration of his 67th birthday; he received 300 telegrams of congratulation...
...snapshoted by photographers while walking with his consort, Hermine, in the hamlet of Doom itself, where the Dutch inhabitants usually accord him a silent salute by gravely tipping their hats. At noon he received the congratulations of his entourage and servants. At 4 p. m. he delivered a birthday speech "with energy in a high voice" to his guests, and was greeted with "loud hochs...
...issue under consideration are far and away superior to the witticisms which accompany them. The cover is appropriate and wholly admirable (although not the equal of the George Washington picture of last spring) and shows Lampy acknowledging the greetings of the world upon the occasion of his fiftieth birthday. A cake illuminated by fifty (count them) candles stands appropriately in the foreground and the Blot peers hungrily from an upper window...