Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prince Edward of Kent, 6th in line of succession to the Throne, was officially announced to have "entertained" his parents the Duke and Duchess of Kent last week on his first birthday. Prince Edward wore the latest thing in woolen suits, knitted for him by Queen Mary, and during afternoon tea cooed and gurgled at his sugar cake with one candle. His mother last week canceled all social engagements for the winter, thus intimating to the pleased British populace that she is expecting a second child. ¶Queen Mary's amiable brother Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge...
Illinois, had a birthday, penned a poem...
Napoleon makes his harassed but pompous jailer, Sir Hudson Lowe (Percy Waram), wait for an interview, refuses finally to see him at all. At a birthday dinner, he wonders if he had not better died after one of his victories. The ensuing discussion is interrupted by an earthquake...
From its journalistic grave TIME is saving only Life's worthy name, to be conferred as a birthday present upon TIME'S forth coming newspicture magazine. First issue of the new LIFE will be in subscribers' hands by Nov. 19. Life's staff will be taken over by TIME Inc. intact. Only Life activity to be continued by TIME...
...maiden name, received word that she had won $10,000 with her first novel (TIME, Jan. 6). Wife of a toll-bridge keeper in Bay St. Louis, Miss., mother of six children, author of many rejected short stories, Mrs. Jacobs learned of her good fortune on her 44th birthday and on her 22nd wedding anniversary. Born in Old Town, Me., she had previously written for local newspapers. After graduation from the University of Maine, she married a classmate and went South with him to make their home. The Old Ashburn Place was written at night and during occasional free hours...