Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days before her seventh birthday, Mary MacArthur made her stage debut unknown to the audience in the last scene of Victoria Regina, when, as Princess Ena of Battenberg, she walked on, spoke no line but curtsied to her mother, Helen Hayes, in the title role. Backstage afterward Actress MacArthur received telegrams, flowers, an unwelcomed reminder that her mother had made her debut...
...doctors' tongues, for the Journal of the American Medical Association had just published a lengthy thoroughgoing account of Robert Wadlow of Alton, Ill. who, the author asserted, "exceeds . . . every other documented case of gigantism on record in medical literature." Last Monday, when Robert Wadlow celebrated his nineteenth birthday, he was 8 ft. 6 in. tall, weighed 435 lb., was still growing...
Harold Wadlow, an Alton engineer, and his wife had no intimation that this first of their five children was going to be extraordinary. They and all their known ancestors were of normal size. Their firstborn, who arrived on Washington's Birthday, 1918, weighed only 8½ lb. at birth. He began to grow fast at once. At six months he weighed 30 Ib. Year later he weighed as much as a normal six-year-old boy. When he was six years old and in the first grade he had to put on long pants because the biggest boys...
...Haven arena the undertaker's song has been sung for the benefit of outclassed Crimson hockey teams by Prom-happy Elis on many occasions. But tonight will not be one of these, for the Stubbs-Ford sextet is on the rebound from Washington's Birthday at the Forum, and Yale is the only possible vent for their wrath. McGill had a great team and they deserved to end the 20 game streak of the Crimson team; but it was the breaks that gave the Redmen such a high score, and this outfit excepted, Harvard certainly has the best College hockey...
When President Conant carried greetings from Harvard and the educational world to Iowa State College on its ninetieth birthday party yesterday, both his presence and the words of his mouth gave striking witness to the basic validity of the Harvard educational ideal. Reversing the process of last September, when Mr. Conant gathered world-wide greetings in honor of his own university's age and pre-eminence, the president has taken up the gage of responsibility that pre-eminence demands. His speech at Iowa City not only conveys anniversary regards to a younger institution, but trumpets to the nation at large...