Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...direct it to get him out of my apartment." Originally produced in an Off-Off-Broadway workshop, the play proved unexpectedly popular. "I never thought it would be a hit," said Moore. "Who thought anyone would be interested in a play about nine fags at a birthday party...
...subject tried to be gracious. It is "a remarkable example of modern art," pronounced Sir Winston Churchill at the unveiling in Westminster Hall in 1954 of his 80th birthday present, a portrait commissioned by Parliament and painted by the famed English neoromanticist Graham Sutherland. But his remark was tongue in cheek, and the audience roared. Winnie thought the portrait, which had a gloomy, resigned-to-age air about it, made him look "half-witted, which I ain't." His dutiful wife Clementine put it out of sight in the basement and promised her husband that it would never...
Jack Brennan, Nixon's aide, describing the former President's 65th birthday party: "Nixon was kidded about being eligible for Social Security and Medicare. He will not apply for Social Security benefits...
...Indeed, Robert C. Byrd did not even begin life as Robert C. Byrd. Born in North Wilkesboro, N.C., he was named after his father, Cornelius Calvin Sale, a furniture factory worker earning $5 a week; but his mother died during the flu pandemic of 1918, just before his first birthday. Her last wish: that Cornelius Jr., the youngest of five children, be raised by Sale's sister and her husband, the Byrds, who moved to Stotesbury, W. Va., when he was four. Renamed and unaware that he was adopted, Byrd met his real father for the first ?and last?...
...both strange and ironic that the nation remembers Martin Luther King's birthday if it continues to ignore the conditions that led to his death," Willie said...