Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Santo Domingo, found in 1496 by Christopher Columbus who "with fragile caravels of discovery opened new routes on unknown seas," shook hands with Col. Lindbergh on his birthday. With the above quotation President Horacio Vasquez likened the visitor to a new Columbus. Among the exhibits prepared for his reception were effigies of the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower two stories high with a miniature airplane swung between them. U. S. Minister Evan E. Young entertained the visitor with a chocolate cake sprouting 26 candles...
Nathan Straus, philanthropist, Zionist, last half of Abraham & Straus (famed Brooklyn department store), became 80 years old, in Mamaroneck, N. Y. He gave another $100,000 for reconstruction work in Palestine (making a total of $1,500,000). His wife lit a candle on a monster birthday cake and kissed him. Letters of congratulation showered upon him from the clergy, from financiers, from almost all State governors, from the Cabinet, from President Coolidge, who remarked how well beloved is Nathan Straus and said: "Such a reward is beyond price." Mr. Straus repeated his motto: "Give while you live...
...Francisco, a small boy had a birthday, made his party out of such stuff as Mozart, Bach and Tartini and entertained 10.000 guests. He was Yehudi Menuhin, who after two years abroad, has upset the tradition that a child prodigy can never be a great artist. Out he came on to the great Civic Auditorium stage, a chunky child in the white socks, silk blouse and velvet breeches of the conventional boy violinist. Over his face spread a wide, confiding smile. Up to his chin went the violin ? itself not quite man-sized ? and the concert began...
...qualities as innocence and joy, prayed these might not be tarnished. There followed an offer for seven concerts at $5,000 apiece, another from a San Francisco group for ten at $3,000 each but the Menuhins refused them both, boarded the train instead for San Francisco, permitted a birthday concert there and then announced a period of retirement "for the development of his musical and general education...
...editorially, necessity "will not take 'no' for an answer but demands that that paper must come out in acceptable form every morning." Curiously, such inspiration is most needful, as the CRIMSON can bear witness from its own semi-centennial in 1923, when the newspaper is obliged to reverse conventional birthday procedure and treat its readers to a gargantuan supplement...