Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brethren, members of the National Electric Light Association, were beginning last week to assemble in Atlantic City, N. J., for their annual convention and, incidentally, an electrical 75th birthday party for the city...
...Some took more active parts than others in Edisonizing the U. S. For a broad view, however, of the background against which electric light was developed in the U. S., none of them is more typical or important than the alert little old-school gentleman who, on his 82nd birthday last month, was not the least perturbed about receiving congratulations at one moment, entertaining grandchildren the next and sitting for the portrait (see front cover) in between...
LITANY OF WASHINGTON STREET-Vachel Lindsay-Macmillan ($3). A curious potpourri of U. S. lore, in rhythmic U. S. language, which ranks Walt Whitman with Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln as a patriot, and proposes to celebrate his birthday (May 31) "with new great maypole dances...
Last November official Austria celebrated her 80th birthday. White hair piled high like a coronet, figure carried as proudly as it once held Brunnhilde's shield, Lilli Lehmann heard President Michael Hainisch confer on her the title of "Professor," listened as he rehearsed her glorious performances at the Vienna Opera in the days of the Empire, her efforts in behalf of the Mozart Festivals in Salzburg...
...birthday party) : "Look at that rinsed-out toad countin' his presents again! Just disgustful, that's what...