Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alfalfa Bill's 80th birthday, Chief of Staff Hurst and the Squirrel Rifles had a party for him in the rotunda of the Capitol. On top of a stack of baled alfalfa hay was a birthday cake. The check they presented to him was a good deal short of the $4,000 which Oklahoma owed him, but it would help take care of Alfalfa Bill in his frayed and prideful...
Lucky Day. Possibly Chanis felt lucky: he had already prepared to celebrate his 58th birthday at the palace on Sunday. Possibly he counted on the fact that Remón, too, has been seriously ill with liver trouble in recent months. For a little while it seemed that his plan might go off without a hitch. Remón arrived at the palace, and was confronted with a demand for his resignation along with that of his two chief subordinates. The chubby, softspoken chief refused, was placed under arrest...
Spry King Gustaf of Sweden, 91, and his brothers, Prince Oscar Bernadotte, 90, and Prince Carl, 88, threw caution to the winds at a birthday party for Oscar in Stockholm's Drottningholm Castle. Abandoning their rigid spartan diet, they gorged themselves on a few favorite dishes of their youth: lobster American, goose liver, partridge, champagne, ice cream...
...Rickey wanting to sell me, but I know one thing. I'll never leave Brooklyn. If I was sold . . . I'd quit." He might quit anyhow, he thought, after one more season. It was also a big week for Jackie Robinson Jr., who celebrated his third birthday with his parents and neighborhood friends...
...hackneyed, but the heroine (Donna Reed) is original and haunting: she is a sweet girl who simply wanders changelessly and sadly through assorted jobs, cities, and love affairs. All that Ladd manages to discover is that she was a much-dated girl who always remembered to bake a birthday cake for her brother. Also, it seems that she took up with almost anybody who made a pass at her because she "felt sorry for people...