Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...publisher of the Ladies' Home Journal, Saturday Evening Post, etc., etc.) uses pretty-girl covers for his magazines. Such covers are usually inspired by pretty models. Such a model is Miss Peggy Burns of Philadelphia, Pa., who last week on her 21st birthday inherited $500,000 from her grandfather. Said she : "I am not going to quit work. I like my work." One of her first acts after receiving the inheritance was to collect $100 from an artist for posing for the cover of the current Ladies' Home Journal...
...undergraduates as a whole, and even to those with the intellectual curiosity to read his column, the Student Vagabond feels safe in saying, Washington's birthday comes as a very pleasant event. In fact it is in the highest degree gratifying to think that over a century and a half ago the father of his country had the remarkable foresight to be born just at this time midway between Christmas and Easter, when the spirit is wearied with much study and what...
...immobile Executive countenance, over which the skin is so much more loose and translucent than shows in photographs, the newsgatherers shuffled out with nothing more significant to report than that the President would sail to Alexandria, Va. (18 miles from Washington), in the Mayflower on Washington's Birthday, for ceremonies...
...torches pierced the blackness of a Vienna night. Five hundred dark-coated figures crowded their way down a crooked street in the Himmel-pfortgrund, stopped before an empty house tucked away there, hummed an invocatory pitch and sang the Serenade of Franz Peter Schubert. So last week, on his birthday and at his birthplace, tribute was paid to the memory of a great composer...
...first gesture, Chairman Kahn cabled last week to the Mayor of Vienna, asked him in behalf of the U. S. to place a birthday wreath in the Schubert house...