Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cleveland department stores last week offered the "Ballyhoo" scarf (with "Ballyhoo" clip), made with a crazy quilt design like the magazine's cover border. Also there are a Ballyhoo dress, necktie, cuff links, rings, night club (in Manhattan), song, game, birthday card, convalescent card, saloon (in Havana, formerly the American Bar), a statuet of Gandhi with a copy of Ballyhoo under his arm. Except for the game, all the other enterprises are independent of the publication which takes its royalties in the form of free advertising...
...anniversary of the two hundredth birthday of George Washington, in 1932, could be much more fittingly marked by the establishments of community forests rather than by high price trees of doubtful history," writes J. G. Jack in a recent number of the Arnold Arboretum bulletin, in discussing alleged descendants of "the so-called Washington...
...express the hope that this group of representative Democrats, gathered in the capital city tonight on the birthday of a great American, a great Democrat and a great President? express the firm hope that Divine Providence will inspire the mass of American people to a renewal of confidence in the aims and purposes of the Democratic party, to the end that we may supply the leadership that will light the way to progress, peace and prosperity...
...birth. Ordinarily newborn infants weigh 7 Ib. During the first two or three days they usually lose 5 or 6 oz., but regain it by the beginning of the second week. Then the ordinary infant adds poundage until he weighs 20 to 21 Ib. at his first birthday. Mrs. Caruso's 18-lb. son, if he gains weight in proportion to his pre-natal precocity, will weigh 36 Ib. July 1, 54 Ib. next New Year...
...party in Mt. Vernon, N. Y. to celebrate her 73rd birthday, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, famed feminist, told newsmen: "I do not know much about the Manchurian situation, but from what I gather there is some mysterious cause for it all that we Occidentals cannot understand. . . . Incidentally, somebody has to spank Japan and China for the way they have been acting. I wonder how that will be done...