Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Century of Progress. In Los Angeles, Arthur Moon was arrested for drunkenness on his 100th birthday...
...most delicious memory of her is of the day when she was three years old and I had the glory of sitting beside her at her birthday tea party. Some of her presents were on the table .. . She was in a frenzy of glee about them, especially about one to which she had given the place of honor by her plate. I said to her as one astounded: 'Is that really your very own?' And she saw how I envied her and immediately placed it between us with the words: 'It is yours and mine...
...Balmoral last week the birthday party was quieter than Margaret would have liked. It stopped at midnight Saturday to avoid criticism by strict Scottish Sabbatarians, who had been ruffled recently when Princess Elizabeth took in the races, theater and a nightclub in Paris on a Sunday. The King toasted his daughter in champagne. A helicopter brought thousands of birthday greetings. Britain wondered (and doubted) whether Margaret would settle down. Said an East End docker last week: "I bet she's a handful...
...decades the little (pop. 791) Iowa town of West Branch has listened to old Newt Butler tell the same story-how he licked Herbie Hoover in a scrap at the swimming hole. Last week, as ex-President Herbert Clark Hoover returned to West Branch to celebrate his 74th birthday, Newt reminded his old schoolmate of the bout. Hoover just grinned...
Social Security. Under the weeping willow trees outside, Hoover sat down with state functionaries to an Iowa lunch of fried chicken, corn on the cob and a huge birthday cake, while spectators gawked from beyond the low fence. He visited the old Quaker cemetery, where some dozen Hoovers are buried under the red cedars, and for a long moment stood with his head bowed before the grave of his father and mother. On a platform looking out over sun-splashed fields of the finest corn in lowans' memory, Hoover spoke. He recalled leaving West Branch...