Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be impractical for the Emperor of India to intervene in this most delicate Hindu matter but last week His Highness Sir Rama Varma, Maharaja of Travancore celebrated his 24th birthday by issuing a proclamation hailed as the most important Hindu reform in almost a millennium...
...Louisiana, voters approved 34 constitutional amendments including permission for State legislators to raise their own salaries, and designation of the late Huey Long's birthday as a legal holiday...
...Birthday. Louis Dembitz Brandeis, 80, oldest Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court; in Washington...
...years. They debated on sex, socialism, Christianity, war, Ireland, Shakespeare, until they came to be stock figures in British intellectual life, being put upon lecture platforms especially to pummel each other "like two knockabout comedians." Their social relations were less permanent. When Maurice Baring gave a great birthday party (at which eggs were boiled in Sir Herbert Tree's silk hat and Chesterton fenced with real swords with a gentleman "fortunately" more intoxicated than himself), Shaw left the drunken company "like a 17th Century Puritan leaving a tavern full of Cavaliers." Among other veterans' tales of literary warfare...
...official closing of Harvard's Tercentenary took place Saturday with the celebration of John Harvard's 329th birthday. At the regular Chapel Service at 9:45, Reverend Raymond Calkins '90 commemorated the birth of Harvard's founder by tracing briefly the history of the college from the gift of Harvard's library and half of his estate. Mentioning only the highlights in his survey, Reverend Calkins stressed the influence Harvard has had on the development of the country as a whole and on the future...