Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bunnie sat at his desk frankly ignoring his work, thinking of the girl and staring at a commercial calendar that hung before him. Suddenly a change came over him, the glaze left his eyes, and the thin arms galvanized into action. On February 14th was printed in bold type--Birthday of St. Valentine. Here was a way out, not a very good way, by a way. He would write her a letter asking her to be his his Valentine. By Jove careful Bunnie there was an idea. And should be sign it Bunnie or Run, or why sign...
...celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Washington will be held at Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, at 11 o'clock on Washington's Birthday. Dr. A. T. Davison '06 will lead 30 members of the Glee Club in songs of the American Revolution, and Professor Morison will speak on "The Young Man Washington," Mayer Russell will introduce Dean Murdock, who will preside...
...Freeman is a grandson of Dr. William Williams Keen, famed Philadelphia surgeon and wit. who fortnight ago celebrated his 95th birthday...
...Gervis Hargreaves, the original Alice of Alice in Wonderland, might come from her home in Lyndhurst. England to attend the ceremonies, Columbia University postponed its celebration of the 100th anniversary of Lewis Carroll's birth from Jan. 27 to May 4, which will be Mrs. Hargreaves' 80th birthday. The postponement was arranged to spare Mrs. Hargreaves the rigors of a winter voyage. "Alice" alone survives of the three daughters of Dean Henry George Liddell for whom Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), the sombre, pedantic young Oxford lecturer, composed the fantastic "Wonderland" stories. Her husband died six years...
Soprano Ljungberg's voice has lovely subtle tones but is not strikingly powerful for a Wagnerian's. It was only a medium-sized voice when on her eighth birthday she sang for the Queen of Sweden, got five crowns because she had "gold in her throat." She spent the five crowns on cakes and milk for her school friends. In Stockholm's singing academy she learned German (she calls it Yarman) and the German operas. She acquired superstitions. The right foot must come out of bed first in the morning, the right stocking go on first. If a costume...