Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Celebrating his 70th birthday at London's P.E.N. Club banquet, said H. G. Wells: "I just hate it. I feel like a youngster sitting on the floor with all my games spread out before me. . . . It is as if my nurse were coming to me to say: 'Bertie, it is getting late-time to put those toys away...
...years 1935-36-37 will be marked in U. S. educational history as a notable centennial season. Celebrated last year was the 30th anniversary of the first U. S. high school, Boston Latin, which was founded in 1635. Celebrated all last summer was the 300th birthday of Harvard, first U. S. college (TIME, Sept. 28). At Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, last week began the year-long observance of the Centenary of the great U. S. educator, Horace Mann...
...President Ben Alexander of Masonite Corp. On his desk in the wallboard company's executive offices in Chicago's Conway Building appeared a big bouquet of red roses from his wife, marking his tenth wedding anniversary. The roses also served as a remembrance for his 42nd birthday. Meantime Mr. Alexander's Masonite published its annual report for the fiscal year through August showing record profits, celebrated its tenth business birthday, announced a refinancing plan and split its stock...
...only a capitalistic but an extremely efficient co-operative enterprise as well. It is an organ of enlightenment, a system of distribution, a father &mother to small grocers and the largest voluntary chain in the U. S. Last week 6,500 grocers in 44 states lighted candled birthday cakes in their windows to mark, proudly and with gratitude, IGA's tenth birthday...
...granddaughter, Abbey, works as a schoolteacher, becomes a Communist, emigrates to Russia. Her twin brother, Louis, struggles against his homosexual impulses and becomes a school principal as well as the editor of Gregrannie's unpublished works. For 491 pages Gregrannie observes this crowded scene, until on her hundredth birthday, with her family gathered around her, she is still able to shake like a lost leaf with "immense dreary laughter at what men will sweat...