Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called his five sons home last week. Up the curving carriage drive of the staid villa at Doom in Holland most of them came-ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm. Eitel Friedrich and August Wilhelm ("Auwi"). Old Wilhelm talked plainly. He had summoned them because the excitement of his 75th birthday had passed and he was feeling old. When, as and if he died, he wanted certain dignities at his funeral. He was not well. What of the House? What of that long lost country and that long lost crown? "We," he said, "are the divinely ordained rulers of Germany...
...morning the President announced that he felt fine. Reason: He had completed work on a new book, a compilation of his writings and speeches to be published under the tentative title of On Our Way, succeeding his previous book Looking Forward. Keith Morgan, who ran the "Birthday Ball" drive for an endowment for the President's Warm Springs Foundation, last week wound up his job, went to Florida on vacation. Results of the drive fell below expectations. Net collections last week without allowing for campaign expenditures amounted only to some...
...eyes, she rises at 5:30 a. m., exercises to a phonograph before going to work. Weekends she hikes. Her decisions from the Supreme Court bench have been learned, middle-of-the-roadish. Had President Roosevelt withheld his appointment one fortnight, he would have given Judge Allen a pretty birthday present. Next week she will...
...apartment, found nothing to incriminate him personally, but did uncover a jolly photograph which showed Swindler Stavisky arm in arm with one of the chief attorneys of the Court of Appeal, named Cazenavette. Lawyer Cazenavette shrilly cried that the picture was taken at a publisher's birthday party and he had no idea who the gentleman he was embracing was. All this was very depressing for Raymond Hubert. Wandering home from the Palais de Justice he jumped into the Seine. Police fished him out. Dripping wet, he got as far as the middle of the Pont de Solf...
John Harvard on his pedestal, a traditional symbol for generations of Harvard men, celebrates his fiftieth birthday this spring. The imposing statue in front of University Hall which bears the legend, "John Harvard, Founder, 1638," was cast in bronze by Daniel French and first erected...