Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan last week, the Knoedler Gallery honored the 100th birthday of one of the finest U.S. artists...
...Four huge electric pumps were installed. With his own hand II Duce started the pumps (1928). A little less than three years later the water-logged galleys were raised. In 1940 Mussolini presented the venerable hulls, mounted on concrete, as a pious gift to Rome on her 2,695th birthday (April 21). On the last day of May at lovely Lake Nemi the defeated Nazis paused in their flight from the U.S. Fifth Army long enough to give themselves a little pleasure. With fire they destroyed forever the galleys of Caligula...
...beside the fire, sets up a hungry cry: "Sally, bring the anchovies!" and Sally reaches for a can opener. Mrs. Spaatz keeps a steady flow of ingenious crackers, biscuits, anchovies, kippers, sardines, smoked cheese and the like crossing the Atlantic for X-House; as a gift on his 53rd birthday (June 28) Tooey will get a Smithfield...
...long, sharp session, and just one day before its first birthday, the Committee picked up the solemn request of the Assembly, made three weeks before, and formally declared itself to be the Provisional Government of the French Republic. Many Committeemen had previously opposed the change; only the barbs from London and Washington goaded them into making it now. The gauntlet was down; Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill would have to decide whether to pick it up, try to kick it aside, or ignore...
...Young Men's Christian Association, world's biggest international religious society for laymen, this week celebrates its 100th birthday. A fortnight earlier, the Y.M.C.A.'s grand old man had celebrated his 79th. John Raleigh Mott, during 56 years of intensive Y.M.C.A. activity, has become almost as much a symbol as the Y's red triangle...