Word: birthdaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prayer, Franklin Roosevelt looked rapt in thought, but during the hymns (O God, Our Help in Ages Past and A Mighty Fortress Is Our God) his fine baritone could be heard clear and confident above the male choir. From church he went to the Capitol to address the joint birthday session of Congress...
...previously refused to break his six-year rule of silence even to speak at this birthday party...
...balcony of St. Peter's, as twilight turned to darkness, stepped a tall, lean, greying man in white, wearing an ermine-bordered red cape. Pope Pius XII -whose 63rd birthday it was-raised his hand in the gesture of a blessing urbi et orbi, "to the city and the world...
...Manhattan, on Washington's birthday, newshawks discovered Elizabeth Washington, onetime vaudeville actress and direct descendant of his brother John Augustine, cheerfully playing a fiddle in Manhattan's WPA Federal Theater. Said she: "There must be thousands of Washington descendants. The family was enormous.* . . . Just say I swing a mean crinoline...
...York World-Telegram appeared the following advertisement: "Washington's birthday is more than toy hatchets and silver dollar tossing. . . . We can hang our flags in a proud land, rich and free. We should hang out a large flag on every proper occasion. A large flag to fit a large country. America is an expansive country. Wanamaker's is an expansive store. Our flags are inexpansive...