Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...husband at his tollhouse on the Pontchartrain Bridge, spoke breathlessly. Stuttering with excitement, he relayed her message by long distance to his two daughters at Louisiana State University, who shrilled the great news through their dormitory. It was three days before Christmas. It was Mrs. Jacobs' 44th birthday. It was also her 22nd wedding anniversary. But none of these pleasant milestones was the cause of the Jacobs' rejoicing. What had happened was that in far-off Manhattan the judges of the Bodd, Mead-Pictorial Review 1935 novel contest had awarded their $10,000 prize to one Margaret Flint...
Quickly the Jacobs family forgathered, jubilantly celebrated Christmas, birthday, anniversary, then packed their heroine off to Manhattan and glory. At her publishers' tea there Author Margaret Flint, swelling with pleased pride and a corsage of tea-roses, looked more than ever like Mrs. Jacobs of Bay St. Louis. One of her sponsors, in helpful vein, asked if she felt like a butterfly on a pin. "Rather a weighty butterfly," smiled 200-lb. Margaret Flint Jacobs. With five of her six children at home and a husband whose toll-bridge had been rendered bankrupt by Huey Long's free...
...they laid him out in the village church at Maracay. All night long barefoot peasants shuffled past, their black eyes wide with wonder. In his lifetime canny Dictator Gomez made much of the fact that he was born on July 24, a holiday celebrated throughout South America as the birthday of the Liberator, Simon Bolivar. The day and hour of his death last week were reported to have coincided with those of Bolivar's 105 years...
...Lyceum in Amsterdam, he puzzled stolidly over his plays while Dr. Alexandre Alekhine fidgeted and squirmed in the chair opposite him, smoked countless cigarets, gulped countless cups of coffee. At first, Champion Alekhine's brilliant attack, bordering on the reckless, put him in the lead. On his 43rd birthday, after three weeks of play, he was leading, 5-to-2. Unworried, unhurried. Challenger Euwe drew closer. His opponent's moves, as recorded on a dummy board, offended attending chess experts who thought Alekhine's daring an open slight on the Dutchman's talents. Disconcerted by their...
...years. George Roosa James, Memphis drygoods man and banker, was appointed by President Harding in 1923. Next year he will be 70 and though he has the crotchets that go with age, he is crammed full of useful technical information. Adolph Caspar Miller, who will have his 70th birthday in a week, was one of the original members of the first Federal Reserve Board appointed by President Wilson in 1914. For 24 years before that he was an economist. His chances of reappointment are considered good, because he was a great & good friend of Franklin Roosevelt in the days when...