Word: birthdaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bright & early on her 18th birthday, starry-eyed Post-Debutante Brenda Diana Duff Frazier hopped out of bed, answered the telephone, told newsmen: "It's going to be a very quiet day. I'll probably lunch with mummy (Mrs. Frederic Watriss)*and go to the theatre with my grandmother, Lady Williams-Taylor, but that's all. I haven't decided yet what I'll wear." She was still undecided at noon when a Postal Telegraph songster arrived with flowers and caroled Happy Birthday...
...rain, the Queen ordered the top of their automobile lowered, smiled bravely though wetly during the 26-mile drive through Canada's wheat city. Dignitaries were warned against too hearty handshaking, for the King had pinched two fingers in a train door. It was Queen Victoria's Birthday-Empire Day-and the King, after listening to professions of loyalty broadcast from every colony and Dominion of the Empire, replied with his best speech of the trip...
...Last week Manhattan had the chance to see him on the street and dancing, simultaneously. Accompanied by a police escort, followed by a crowd, for 16 blocks down Broadway he gaily, grinningly, unweariedly clicked his heel-&-toe. It was Bojangles' way of celebrating his 61st birthday...
Fourth Day. George VI was born on Dec. 14, 1895, but a special Canadian birthday celebration was scheduled for May 20. In Ottawa's Parliament Square, to the tune of Pomp and Circumstance, Canada staged for the first time in its history a Trooping of the Colour to celebrate the King's "birthday," a celebration conducted since the 17th Century in London by the Guards Regiments. In Canada the troops honored were brigades of Canadian Foot from Ottawa and Grenadiers from Montreal in blue trousers, red coats and great bearskins...
Because of the Son of Heaven's birthday (Hirohito was 38 last week) official Japan reserved comment on Senator Pittman's proposal, which would indeed be a one-two pair of punches to Japan's military economy. But the new direction of Japan's diplomacy was further clarified in a speech at Los Angeles last week by the man with whom Japan replaced dying Hirosi Saito last December...