Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spirits!" Down in the mess the caterer slops into each seaman's "basin" (bowl) one part rum in three parts water. The rum is mixed in a large tub around whose rim, in brass letters, are the words: "The King-God Bless Him." On the King's birthday all hands get a double ration of straight rum. First class petty officers get half rum, half water. Chief petty officers and warrant officers get straight rum. In the great 19th Century days of the British Navy, the man who passed up his rum ration and took the Government...
Died. James William Collier, U. S. Tariff Commissioner, twelve times U. S. Representative from Mississippi's 8th District, chairman last year of the House's potent Ways & Means Committee; of heart disease; on his 61st birthday, in Washington...
...fire house. She answered every alarm, smoked, drank and played poker with the boys. She signed all her letters "Lily Hitchcock Coit-5." "L. H. C.-5" was embroidered on her chemises, and wherever she was on Oct. 17 she would drink a toast in iced champagne "to the Birthday of Number 5!" Oct. 17 found her once in Palestine, with champagne but no ice. She had snow brought down from the Lebanon Mountains to do Knickerbocker No. 5 justice...
Paul von Hindenburg, who has been very much like King Victor Emmanuel in the public eye, has had a birthday, and such birthday ceremonies as to make him once more a center of discussion and of speculation. One wonders just what Paul von Hindenburg thinks of Hitler, but senility and the admirable repression of his public utterance simply leave one wondering. There is, of course, the very strong possibility that he does not think of Hitler at all, that extreme age has so relaxed the fibers of his mind as in the case of the very late Victoria, that nothing...
...attrition" which goes on in the dining halls, have been an attractive and a valuable feature of the Plan. Such activities and groups include formal dances, generally twice annually; tea dances, costume dances, -- shipwreck dances and poverty balls; House dinners on such occasions as Christmas and President Lowell's birthday, with skits following; plays, such as "The Shoemaker's Holiday," produced by the student and tutor members of the Eliot Elizabethan Club; economic societies; "Coffee Pot" discussion groups; musical societies; singing groups; and other discussion groups. For the most part these activities, which have arisen generally from the initiative...