Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Michael Hainisch of Austria celebrated his 70th birthday, last week at Eichberg, near Vienna, with his mother...
...Summer Palace at Soestdyk, after completing a series of State visits to each of the eleven provinces of Holland. From the Zuider Zee to Zealand loyal Dutchmen had barked gruff cheers. And now good Queen Mother Emma was home in time for a placid celebration of her 70th birthday. Century-old trees, towering above the low, squat Summer Palace, seemed to rustle discreet congratulations to a Queen now almost as venerable and quite as upstanding as they. How much the royal trees have looked upon, and how much she. . . . Princess Emma. Sixty-two was the age of dissolute King Willem...
...today Her Majesty is addicted to coining and obeying such dull maxims as: "By respecting traditions we honor the Dead, who have created them through toil and labor." Quite tame is the present Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands, plump product of a mother who has definitely settled down. Birthday Flush. On the 70th birthday of Queen Emma, last week, the chief demonstration took the form of a cavalry charge by 150 horsemen up the leafy avenue of the Summer Palace. The cavalrymen were of 21 nations and are in Holland as equestrian performers in the famed Olympic Games...
...publisher of the Knoxville Journal; of appendicitis; in Knoxville, Tenn. Republican and veteran of the Union Army, he was nevertheless elected mayor of Knoxville in 1873 and, in 1898, caused Tennessee to enact an anti-duel law in defiance of the oldtime code of honor, became the man whose birthday Knoxville considered "next to Christmas" in importance...
Huge on the front page of the New York Evening Journal (Hearst), last week, was a faithful photograph of John Davison Rockefeller. Big was the caption above: 88TH BIRTHDAY PARTY, and below: "John D. Rockefeller is celebrating his eighty-eighth birthday a day ahead of time." The Journal, unlike Mr. Rockefeller, was a year behind time. As every one knows, Mr. Rockefeller was 89 on July 8. But the New York Sun jumped the gun a year and said that Mr. Rockefeller...