Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington Evelyn Walker Robert, beauteous wife of the recently resigned Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert Jr., gave a large birthday party for her favorite horse, St. John the Baptist. St. John appeared at the party in a wreath of white carnations, eyed suspiciously a guest horse named Easter Sunday, several beribboned dogs...
...private course at Ormond Beach, Fla. His only regular exercise consists in puttering around his estate for 30 minutes each day, going for an occasional automobile ride. Yet he still remembers with glee the day he fooled Mrs. Rockefeller, sends Professional Mitchell a wire every year on his birthday. The last one read: "The old friends are best...
...Charles William Eliot on March 20, 1834. Not a few in the gathering must have recalled the meeting in Sanders Theatre just twelve years before, when Chief Justice Taft and other distinguished men brought greetings of the nation to Mr. Eliot, "America's first citizen," on his ninetieth birthday. How far, far away now seems that happy afternoon in March...
...place, Carl Laemmle usually returned with relatives who were promptly placed on Universal's payroll. Many were incompetents. None was discharged. The peak of Universal nepotism came in 1929. Carl Laemmle made his son, Carl Jr., general manager of the company, in honor of Junior's 21st birthday. Bird-like little Junior started out brilliantly with All Quiet. Two years ago, he resigned to become an associate producer. Even a change in management was not enough to rescue Universal...
...churchgoing, is cured of his gout. The menace of an imposter Qackie Searl) for Ceddie's heirdom appears and is disposed of. The picture ends with a ceremonious and charming scene in which Ceddie, Dearest and the Old Earl are happily reunited on Ceddie's tenth birthday, while Ceddie's Brooklyn friends, gaily hobnobbing with the county families, celebrate on the castle lawn. Good shot: Ceddie apologizing to the grocer for having acquired a title...