Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even so King George passed a melancholy birthday. He lay in his rubber-tired bed by the window of his room in Victoria Tower, looking out at the white blossoms of the hawthorn trees in Windsor Great Park...
...king's doctors and all the king's nurses who had attended during his illness received recognition in the birthday honors list. Elevated to peerages were onetime First Lord of the Admiralty William C. Bridgeman, Col. Sir Edward A. Brotherton, Sir Robert Sanders, Sir William Tyrell, Newspaper Owner Sir William Ewert Berry. The Order of Merit was conferred upon Poet Laureate Robert Bridges, Novelist-Dramatist John Galsworthy. An earldom was granted to Viscount Inch-cape of Strathnaver (shipping...
...traveled and trudged last week, in their traditional best, 5,000 town and country folk. Some had traveled 70 miles down from London; most had trudged from nearer homes in the West Sussex country which spreads its downs and rivers below high Castle Hill. All had come to be birthday guests of Bernard Marmaduke FitzAlan-Howard, Premier Duke and Earl and Hereditary Marshal & Chief Butler of England, Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Arundel, Earl of Surrey, Earl of Norfolk, Baron Maltravers, Baron FitzAlan. Baron Clun, Baron Oswaldestre, scion of one of England's oldest families...
Because he is a Roman Catholic and because it was the feast of Corpus Christi, the young Duke rose early on his birthday beautiful morning, church went of St. Philip Neri (built the by his Solemn father in 1873), and there attended solomn High Mass, heard and the there monks from Storrington intone a sonorous Te Deum. Followed, in the afternoon, a solemn procession through the wide castle grounds, and benediction services under the castle trees, with monks and nuns from neighboring convents...
...with relief their master approach and throw the flaming torch to set the fire off. Yellow tongues licked up the oil and shot toward the dark sky. Soon in all the seven counties which lie about Bury Hill and to the south far out at sea, folk noted the birthday fire of the Hereditary Earl Marshal and Chief Butler of England...