Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...death in 1919, she traveled widely. Visiting dignitaries called on her, but she avoided the public eye. She devoted herself to her family and friends, entertained the local Women's Republican Club, was always ready to help charity drives and benefits for servicemen. Every year on her birthday, the family gathered at her Long Island home, at Oyster...
Thousands of Hindus marched through the streets dragging hideous effigies labeled DEMON LIQUOR. At strategic corners, city officials stepped forward to set fire to the images. Last week Madras Province was celebrating Gandhi's birthday (it would have been his 79th) by going...
...Louis-born T. S. Eliot, now a British subject and Britain's most influential living poet, got a book for his 60th birthday. Specially published, it contained nosegays of one sort & another from 48 of Eliot's contemporaries in the arts. Sample posy from W. H. Auden...
Among other donors was an anonymous Radcliffe student from the Class of 1948. She wrote out a check for $5,000 payable on August 4, her 21st birthday...
Lieut. General Curtis LeMay, Air Force chief in Europe, had called for a special 24-hour effort. The entire load was to be coal, to be distributed as an Air Force birthday present to families with two or more children in the Western sectors of Berlin...