Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Revival of the ancient custom of celebrating John Harvard's birthday by appropriate services, has been announced by the Harvard Memorial Society. On next Monday, November 26, the accepted date for the birth of Harvard's founder, the regular morning chapel services will be supplanted by a program commemorating this event...
...annual Lowell's Birthday Dinner, Thursday, December 13, members of Lowell House will produce "Gamma Gurton's Needle," the earliest full length English comedy, with the aid of whatever properties can be dug out of old New England barns and designed by willing girl-friends. Tryouts for parts will be held in the Tower room this afternoon at 3.15, under the management of Douglas W. Overton '36 and Alan S. Deruer...
Proud would Samuel Brearley have been if he could have returned to Earth last week for a banquet at Manhattan's Hotel Astor. Proud were the 1,000 handsome, well-dressed people who gathered there to celebrate the 50th birthday of the famed Manhattan girls' school which he started in a small brownstone house on East 45th Street. They were proud that Brearley had attracted the daughters of Cleveland H. Dodge, Herbert L. Satterlee, Oswald Garrison Villard, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Felix M. Warburg, Owen D. Young. They were proud that Brearley had schooled such distinguished personages as Dean...
...world that, at 40, she would retire from opera, none but close friends took her seriously. She was still in her heyday?gay, darkly handsome, alive with magnetism. While Caruso was the great voice at the Metropolitan, she was filling the old house with glamour and excitement. Her 40th birthday came on Feb. 28, 1922. Less than two months later she gave her farewell performance. That memorable afternoon streamers were hurled from the balconies, flowers and confetti were piled on the stage. A great audience stood and cheered through its tears...
...possessed of magnetic eyes, the color of sapphires." When Mrs. Stull discovered that Mr. Kabelac and the Countess could be mar ried at once, she proudly gave the bride away, left for Atlantic City "where 500 of my boys and girls will be gathered to cele brate my birthday." Best news on Mrs. Stull's birthday was from Mr. Miller. Mr. Miller was holding a dance in celebration of his engagement to Mrs. J. E. Barker, thrice a widow...