Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...share the fame of other Wrigley products, "Spearmint," "Doublemint," "Juicy Fruit." He still keeps in close touch with his business and when in Chicago eats lunch in the restaurant on the main floor of the white Wrigley Building which towers like a huge birthday cake beside an oily curve of the Chicago river. Snobbish Chicagoans who see him eating there are impressed with what they call the democracy of this great millionaire who was once a soap crutcher. In modern times soap is crutched or mixed by a machine but in the soap factory of William Wrigley Sr., opposite Wayne...
German leaders tried hard to find a successor last week. At Schorfheide, his Bavarian shooting lodge, grizzled old President von Hindenburg quietly celebrated his 82nd birthday. An aide brought news of Stresemann's death. President von Hindenburg rushed back to Berlin. Preceding him was a telegram...
...Hundred Years Old. The happy simplicity of this play, which concerns a Spanish patriarch who arranges and enjoys his 100th birthday party, is like a benison softly spoken in the clangor and fret of Broadway. Serafin and Joaquin Alvarez Quintero, playwright-brothers of Madrid, might easily have drenched it in tears of sentimentality, but the best proof that their play avoids pathos is the fact that the old man does not die in the last act. Having convinced his fastidious, fortunate descendants that all the family, including Antonon, who is a truck-gardener and Gabriella, who has borne an illegitimate...
Professor Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, famed Russian physiologist, author of Lectures on Conditioned Reflexes, refused an official celebration of his 80th birthday at Leningrad. Reason: Physiologist Pavlov is no friend of Communism. Said he, "I deplore the destruction of cultural values by illiterate Communists." Mindful that upon his research rests the behavioristic "Science of Marxism" and Marxian doctrine, the Soviet tolerates his slaps gently and without reproach, babies him. Birthday gifts from the Soviet to him include $50,000 endowment of his laboratory and an assurance that traffic would be diverted from the street near it so as not to disturb...
...Birthday. Georges Clemenceau, French War Prime Minister; at St. Vincent-sur-Jard. Age: 88. Said he: "My mother lived to be 83 years old, my father, 87. At 88, I am in the danger zone. I do not ask for death, neither do I fear it. I await it. I shall die this year...