Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York, thumbed the tattered pages of a manuscript of a roaring melodrama of old Ireland, The Shaughraun. Eyes twinkling with kindly memories he read his lines: in May he is to play the part of the black-hearted villain in the plot, Cory Kinchela, at the 100th birthday of St. James Catholic Church, Manhattan. In that parish his early days were spent; three times before he has played the villain of The Shaughraun...
...life no more fully nor could any director efface himself as completely as Mrs. Peterkin to let a rich stream of life take its own way through playful eddies and deep pools. Black April is a full size product, as authentic as a bumper cotton crop. The Author. Her birthday was Halloween, 1880. Her mother died and she was reared by an oldtime Negro "mauma." Her name, Julia Mood, was near the top of the class of 1896 at Converse College
President Haley Fiske of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.: "I said: 'Simply great!' to describe my sensations upon finding my Manhattan home and office filled with flowers and presents for my 75th birthday, last week. Five minutes after I reached my desk (at 9:45 as usual), my secretary produced many a telegram. My reading of them was interrupted by the arrival of more flowers, which I sniffed appreciatively. Soon a delegation of our office managers trooped in, bringing me a pigskin suitcase. I thanked them and tried to resume my morning's work, when in came...
...regard bad grammar as a luxury. Said a seven-year-old economist: "Sure, I use bad grammar, but I wait till I'm out in the street, see?" Said a self-indulgent eight-year-old, displaying a dime: "Momma give me two ain'ts for my birthday...
Since yesterday was the ninety third anniversary of President Eliot's birth displays will be made this week in the Treasure Room in Widener Library of several of the birthday greetings which he received during his life. His certificate of membership in the French Legion of Honor and several views of the Yard and surrounding territory during President Eliot's long term of office, as well as a copy of a "Boston Journal" Supplement, dated October 20, 1869, which describes his inauguration to the Presidency are also on exhibition...