Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week, his 57th birthday, a telegram from 20,000 of his employes moved him profoundly. It conveyed their good wishes...
...these words last week the Schlesische Tagespost, reactionary organ of Silesian Nationalists, paid homage to Friedrich Wilhelm, sometime Crown Prince, on the occasion of his 45th birthday. He was born to the late Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, at the Marble Palace, Potsdam...
...Chicago, Irving K. Pond, one-time President of the American Institute of Architects, celebrated his 70th birthday last week with able handsprings and headsprings.* On hearing this news, Chester Lavere, 57, another Chicagoan, seized a rope, demonstrated his own athletic age by skipping it at a rate of 1 2/3 skips per second for two hours, a grand total of 12,000 skips. Skipper Lavere was puffing and heaving when he stopped. Later he explained his agility: "I eat raw meat, everything raw. Eating raw stuff was the only thing that enabled me to do this. . . . From now on, there...
...structural development of a fugue. Its main theme is the simple story of Hans, an idiot boy, who at first is feared and loathed by Martin Scheffer, his father, but when Emma, the nurse, undertakes to bring the two together on the occasion of the child's fourteenth birthday, there is an ensuing successful rapport, and she loses hold over her old charge. But this strain is supported by the introduction of a supplementary force, for Hans sees the marionettes play Faust, and these dolls soon people his world, absorb his life. Mr. Muir has used the intricate pattern...
Faithful, persistent David O'Shea of Skibbereen, Ireland, courted his fiancee for seven years with large and shiny gifts?40 of them?one for every Christmas, every Easter, every birthday. . . . Last week she, no mummy, broke off the engagement. All the gifts had been coffins. Mr. O'Shea wanted his 40 coffins back, so he sued her for breach of promise...