Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House birthday party began with a clam cocktail, ended with a modest fruit cake with 21 candles. "In our family," grinned Mrs. Roosevelt, "they never go beyond 21." With only a few of the family present-Elliott and his second wife and Anna Roosevelt Boettiger- President Franklin D. Roosevelt thus unostentatiously observed the end of his 53rd year of life. But out in the night over every horizon, wherever the U. S. flag flew, 4,000,000 of the President's fellow-citizens were marking his birthday with a huge celebration. Communities staged over 7,000 Birthday Balls...
...friendly affiliation between Lowell House and its Yale "sister," Pierson College, was strengthened at a banquet in New Haven Wednesday evening, that originated as a birthday celebration for the college and developed into a demonstration of respect for its departing master, Alan Valentine, just appointed President of Rochester University. A social union was initiated between those two units last year when Pierson College played the gracious host to Julian L. Coolidge '95, Master of Lowell House...
...18th birthday last week Yehudi Menuhin gave his last Manhattan concert before he tours the world for a year, rests for another on his new California ranch. To spare harassed box-office employes, an advertisement was published six days before the concert to say that all seats in Carnegie Hall were sold. During the day Yehudi received 150 telegrams and a new projector for his cinema camera. In the evening he played Mozart with rare grace and delicacy. His Bach, without accompaniment, was exuberant and sure. A new sonata by Rumanian Georges Enesco had a true gypsy flair. Said Critic...
After the concert Yehudi had a birthday supper with his family and a few close friends. When he had gobbled his chicken salad and his ice cream & cake he was dispatched to bed. Two days later, for a special treat, he was taken to see In the Pasha's Garden...
...title presents an interesting contrast. Small, pale and agile, with a striking facial resemblance to Cinemactor Richard Dix, Viktor Gyözö ("Viki") Barna was brought up in Budapest, played real tennis as a child, gave it up when he got a table tennis set on his 13th birthday...