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Word: birthdaying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Embassy at Rome, although not accredited to the Vatican, went into mourning. Most foreign embassies and legations in Washington canceled scheduled social functions. One legation there not affected by the death was the Egyptian, which held a big reception in honor of the 19th birthday of King Farouk, a stanch Moslem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Suspended | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...came a birthday picture of one-year-old, two-toothed Princess Beatrix of The Netherlands, whose mother, Crown Princess Juliana, announced fortnight ago that she expects a companion piece "about the middle of August...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 20, 1939 | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Marshall Field & Co. had a total 1938 net of $3,492,238, which President Corley happily declared was "entirely the result of a change of policy." It was only a coincidence that the report was issued for publication on Hughston McBain's 37th birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Change of Policy | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Nobody has ever considered Abe Lincoln a stuffed shirt, but just to make sure, recent biographers have stripped him down to his gaunt ribs. With The Hidden Lincoln, published last year on Lincoln's birthday, Emanuel Hertz identified himself as one of Lincoln's most active denuders. This year, again as a birthday present, Hertz has the grace to throw around Lincoln's bony shoulders a vast mantle of myth. It fits no better than Lincoln's baggy suits did, but as Editor Hertz knows, no editorial tailor will ever be able to fit formal clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Birthday Present | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...delivery man who stopped in front of President Conant's house to deliver a birthday cake to Mrs. Conant returned to find his wagon missing. He gave vent to considerable chagrin and profanity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLICE REMOVE 4 CARS FROM QUINCY ST. PARKING BERTHS | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

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