Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another Good assignment: To make speeches for the President. This duty Secretary Good takes most conscientiously. He has traveled far and made ten major speeches since March 4 to such bodies as the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Red Cross, the War Mothers, the Republican ''Birthday Party" at Ripon...
Commander Byrd hoisted the U. S. flag?also British and Norwegian flags?for the first time since April and said: "This is a big day for us, because of the return of the sun, and a bigger day because it is Larry's [Laurence McKinley Gould, second-in-command] birthday." Wrote Russell Owens, official correspondent (New York Times]: "The ice cliffs sparkled like gigantic mirrors winking back a message of welcome to the sun as if there was some secret understanding between them and they were amused at our boisterous happiness...
...officer were guarding the narrow lane that passes the Wailing Wall of the Temple in Jerusalem, most sacred as shrine of the Jewish faith. The Arabs sat in silence, wishing they were in the nearby Mosque Omar where thousands of Moslems were celebrating the eve of Mohammed's birthday. The lone Jew paced slowly up and down, pensive in the heavy Palestine dusk. He looked at the aged stones of the Wailing Wall where the day before 10,000 Jews had gathered as part of the fast of Tisha B'Ab, to lament the two destructions...
...Germany's Constitution Day. Berlin authorities pleaded by wireless for Commander Eckener to have the Graf Zeppelin salute their city as it did Manhattan and Paris. But the day was also Commander Eckener's 61st birthday and he wished to celebrate it at home. So directly to Friedrichshafen he took his airship...
Frau Eckener awaited her husband with a birthday cake, candles, homely gifts. Said she: "My very best present for him is to make sure that he can sleep undisturbed. He appreciates rest more than anything else...