Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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THUNDER ON THE LEFT?Christopher Morley?Doubleday, Page ($2). It is a children's party, Martin's tenth birthday. The imaginative little fellow invents all sorts of games for his guests: "Stern Parent," "Quarrelsome Children." Then Phyllis, one of the girls, says that grown-ups have a wonderful time. Wouldn't it be nice to be grown up? Martin has an idea for another game, "Spies"?to find out whether grown-ups really have a good time, so as to know whether one wants ever to be grown...
...many children will read this little ad this week? We want you to tell the Press man the date of your birthday. He has a little scheme in mind that will please you. Bring in your birthday dates...
...Another part of the idea was that if we would publish their birthday dates, it might be read by the proper parties, maybe remembered, and might be the cause of some presents along about birthday time...
...looking through your issue of Dec. 7, I found two very interesting things: one, a subscription order blank for TIME; the other, an article on p. 30 entitled "Doorman." The order blank was printed in green and red, colors obviously intended to remind one of Christmas, the birthday of Him who preached "peace on earth, good will toward men." The article on p. 30 dealt with a black man who knocked down a white...
...Tokyo last week the Far Eastern Buddhist Congress, attended by 500 Chinese, Korean and Japanese delegates, decided to spread the teachings of their Master by the publication of Buddhist books, pamphlets, magazines. A resolution was passed urging that the birthday of Buddha be celebrated by a worldwide holiday, like the birthday of Christ...