Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a pennoned canopy, through the palace entrance marked with the letter "W" in electric light bulbs, they trooped to salute their onetime King-Emperor. Then the black-suited company of men, led by Wilhelm, gave praise to the God of the Hohenzollerns. It was Wilhelm's 75th birthday...
...Oriental symbols, eruditely entitled : The Chinese Monad: its History and Meaning. While Doom hummed with Monarchist delegations, Wilhelm decorated his head gardener and eight under-gardeners with the Royal Order of the House of Hohenzollern, led another religious service for his kin and house servants, inspected tons of birthday gifts including one huge wild boar (live) and bushels of congratulations. Protesting that "the only birthdays worth making memorable are those marking decades," he reminded his guests that in five years he will...
...less than memorable for Nazi Germany. Though boys on the streets sold Wilhelm's favorite flower, the blue cornflower, to help the Nazi winter relief fund, Storm Troopers broke up a Monarchists' birthday eve ball in Berlin. Other troopers cut short a ceremonial toast of onetime Imperial Army officers to Wilhelm's birthday while still others patrolled Berlin's streets denuding house fronts of the Imperial flag. Said a Nazi leader, with an eye to Nazi history books: "Hitler is the restorer of authority from above and discipline from below. He is the restorer of self...
...October 28, 1636 the General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony "agreed to give 400? towards a schoale or colledge." Already a committee has been appointed for the celebration of the 300th birthday of Harvard University, oldest, richest, proudest in the land...
When the wrinkly little infant who was to be named George Michael Cohan let out his first faint caw, firecrackers were popping in Providence, R. I. Bands were playing. It was July 4, 1878,* a birthday worthy of one who was to be famed as the greatest and most successful flag-waver in the U. S. show business. This week George M. Cohan is to wave a flag in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to introduce a song called "What a Man!" in honor of President Roosevelt's 52nd birthday. The Manhattan celebration will...