Word: birthday
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...just celebrated your 75th birthday. Or rather the celebrations are ongoing. My sister Eunice wants to know why I have to have several, and I told her, Well, I was the ninth member of the family. I had two sisters who had their birthdays on Feb. 20, and mine's on Feb. 22, so the house was always lively on Feb. 20, and then [the next day] someone would say, Oh, my goodness, Teddy's birthday is coming up tomorrow. So I've been wanting to make...
...suburban Baltimore research facility recently, a group of beta testers seemed to agree. "It makes me feel independent, and my friends can find me anytime," said Derrick, 12. Nick, 11, gleefully set his phone's calendar to remind him of his birthday until he turns 89. Not surprisingly, they were less thrilled with a feature that allows parents, using a website, to limit kids' calling hours or who can call them...
...Objectively speaking, most holidays are atrocious because they force us to do things we don’t want to do. For example, Presidents’ Day (the day formally known as Washington’s Birthday) is a holiday when all Americans are suppose to do their civic duty by buying linens and dwelling upon the achievements of Millard Fillmore. Columbus Day is a day to remember 1492—to paraphrase Vonnegut—the year sea pirates discovered a new continent. Thanksgiving is the time to eat cranberry-covered turkey and be nice to your family?...
...went to provence to celebrate my husband's 50th birthday on a six-day, 200-mile bike trip," says Bobbi Brown, whose newest book, Bobbi Brown Living Beauty, comes out next month. Wandering the markets and sampling the cuisine were high on her priority list, but Brown's eponymous cosmetics company was never far from her mind. "I found a lot of really great things that I brought back to our product-development team?a million different soaps and lavenders, all from the local markets," she says. Inspiration for her spring '08 collection even came from a richly colored pashmina...
Were former Harvard professor Henry Wadsworth Longfellow alive today, he would have 200 candles to blow out on his very large birthday cake. Even before the famous poet earned worldwide acclaim for his romantic verses, he taught foreign languages at Harvard and schmoozed with the Cambridge literati of the day. Thus his birthday is garnering special attention on campus, as well as across the city and the nation. A LONG LEGACY Succeeding George Ticknor, Longfellow became the second Smith professor of modern languages in 1836 and laid much of the foundation for comparative language study at Harvard. He often battled...