Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whereupon I by the fire to read a good part of Professor Whitehead's little essay "Nature and Life", which is mighty good; and thence to Emerson A at 12 to his birthday lecture. He being seventy-five it did much surprise me with what enthusiasm and inspiration he did lecture. But then I know as poets say "philosophers' hearts never wrinkle", especially, methinks, so great...
...afternoon last week while citizens throughout the land were preparing to spend the evening dancing for Franklin Roosevelt and other poliomyelitis sufferers, the President in his office held another kind of money-raising birthday party. The guests were Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, Attorney General Cummings, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and Budget Director Bell...
Assuming that all the 75,000,000 adult inhabitants of the U. S. could be induced to buy admission to a birthday ball, tickets would have to be priced at $10 a head to raise the $550,000,000 required to pay for the New Deal's AAA substitute and the $200,000,000 in processing taxes ordered refunded by the Supreme Court. To raise the $2,250,000,000 required to pay the Bonus, there would have to be another birthday ball with tickets at $30 a head. The gentlemen in the President's office had, however...
...Hecksher, 87. Excerpt: The stars, the stars shine brighter, Search thine immortal soul, Thy heart, thy heart beats lighter, What first we need is - COAL. In the weekly newspaper of Doom, The Netherlands, Wilhelm von Hohenzollern inserted an advertisement thanking the world Press for its interest in his 77th birthday...
...would drop the suit if he could not frost a cake twice as beautifully as Kapche. Kapche went to work with frosting tubes on a big cake. He painstakingly squeezed out four robins' nests, three blue eggs, seven pink sweet pea blossoms, two yellow marigolds and a "Happy Birthday...