Word: birthdaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Birthday. Mickey Mouse, world's most celebrated cinemactor, his tenth; in Hollywood...
Turning over the presidency of Harvard five years ago to James B. Conant '12 after beginning the House Plan and Tutorial System, Lowell is now rarely soon by undergraduates. He usually makes an annual visit to Lowell House on his birthday, where a dinner is given in his honor. The trouble be encountered in driving his automobile and renewing his license threw him into local headlines recently...
Lippmann, writing in the special CRIMSON issue published on the occasion of Copeland's 75th birthday, said of him: "Copey was not a professor teaching a crowd in a class room. He was a very distinct person in a unique relationship with each individual who interested him." Two of his works, the "Copeland Translations" and the "Copeland Reader," were described by Robert Hillyer '17, present holder of Copey's famous chair, an "a Harvard contribution to American letters of which we may justly be proud...
...83rd birthday, bewhiskered old Poultney Bigelow, friend of the former Kaiser and inveterate iconoclast who is strong for war, dictatorship, beards, boating and hickory wagons for hauling wood and geese, gave out a written "interview," in which he asked all the questions and answered them himself. Some answers: "Stop thinking-take a holiday. . . . To go naked is wholesome, especially for nervous women...
...mark Jubilee-Birthday Week, ordinarily placid, sober Netherlanders went wild in celebration. Throughout the diked-in nation spanking wenches danced in the streets till the small hours, workmen, on paid holiday, swizzled smooth Holland gin, and school children, shipped to Amsterdam to view the parades, were treated with pictures of the Queen and slabs of ice cream. Highspots of the week-long festivities: the largest military review The Netherlands has ever seen, witnessed by the Queen (one of her favorite royal duties) : a commemorative service in Amsterdam's very old Nieuwe Kerk (New Church), where the Queen was crowned...