Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...44th birthday of the Duke of Windsor passed by in Great Britain last week with no other press notice than a seven-word announcement in the London Daily Telegraph. But the society of The Octavians, several hundred Britishers who have banded together to perpetuate the memory of the Duke as Edward VIII, were determined to accord the day more formal recognition. Some 250 members, largely middle-aged men and women, crowded into a second-rate restaurant in London's Holborn district for a commemorative dinner and dance. From the French Riviera, where he is summering with the Duchess...
...princess' 22nd birthday an orchestra was flown to Paris from London, and the total cost of the party was more than $10,000. The Georgian nobleman's comment was: "We didn't think it fitting to spend too much in these times...
...Lake Placid, N. Y., at a celebration of his 97th birthday, Negro Lyman Epps stood up, quavered "Blow Ye the Trumpets, Blow.'' Nonagenarian Epps remembered that he had sung the same song at John Brown's funeral...
...Birthday. Gustaf V, King of Sweden, the Goths, and the Wends (popularly known as "Mr. G"), 80; in Stockholm. During 20 hours of feting, he reviewed his troops and air fleet, assigned a popularly subscribed birthday present of 5,000,000 kroner ($1,250,000) to combat infantile paralysis and rheumatic diseases...
...Duke & Duchess of Windsor celebrated the Duchess' 42nd birthday off the Riviera aboard the yacht Frixos, lent them for the occasion by their friend "Nicky" Zographos, head of the Greek gambling syndicate in Monte Carlo, day after moving into their newly redecorated Chateau de la Cröe. Four days later they celebrated the Duke's 44th birthday at home...