Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miss Mary Byrne, Miss Emily Rowland, who taught school in New York and Virginia, always found a charm in the monotony of her career. A year ago, the University of the State of New York awarded her the degree of Doctor of Letters; last week she celebrated her 100th birthday in Sherwood, N. Y., where she lives, saying: "Both boys and girls are better than they were fifty years ago. . . . When I was a girl all boys thought that it was the thing to do to be fast and impertinent. . . . The girls in my youth were neither to be seen...
...Nation: "Ten years ago something new was born into the world: . . . Soviet Russia, still hated and feared by the West, is enthusiastically celebrating its tenth birthday. . . . Soviet Russia has become a land of hope, a country where millions of men and women feel a new intensity in the dull business of living . . . women have a freedom exceeding even that of America and Scandinavia; children have a primary consideration unknown elsewhere; and the whole machinery of the State is directed .toward raising the standards of living of the millions. No government in history has set out so deliberately and so successfully...
Today marks the one hundredth birthday of the late Professor Charles Eliot Norton '46, and the University is planning to commemorate the centenary with appropriate exercises at the Fogg Museum this afternoon...
...chosen because it is the late Theodore Roosevelt's birthday. On Navy Day, speakers usually recite instances of Theodore Roosevelt's constructive interest and energy in building up the Navy during his term as Assistant Secretary of the Navy (1897-98). Last week, Pierce Long, Boston attorney, recalled an incident in 1898 when his father was Secretary of the Navy and Theodore Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary. It was during preparations for War against Spain. Secretary John D. Long took a day off. Subordinates telephoned in panic. The Assistant Secretary, they said, was giving orders right and left, disrupting plans, sending...
...Birthday. At Sinaia, some 75 miles north of Bucharest, capital of Rumania, in the Royal Palace, Michael I, World's youngest king, celebrated the sixth anniversary of his birth. All year long he has been a good boy. His mother, Princess Helene, wife of the errant and onetime Crown Prince Carol, said so. And so blue-eyed "Mickey," as he is called within the court, received lots of presents. It is usual to say that the little boy-king prefers his toys to his throne-that it is usual when newspaper correspondents have nothing else...