Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Haseltine hopes to be able to unveil the final bronze statue at Faraway Farm, Ky. by next March, in time for Man o' War's 31st birthday party. He labored so long, he explained in Paris last week, because "It's not just a horse, it's Man o' War. I loved him best. A perfect gentleman, impeccable in conformation, beautiful yet not effeminate, with an eagle eye and a noble carriage. Yet I must say he was not without vanity. He'd be dozing in his stall and some visitors would arrive...
...Vision. On last week's birthday Bolívar's disappointments were forgotten. It was his vision that still counted. The man who began life wealthy, who died at 47 and was laid out in a borrowed nightshirt, wrote an epigram to be carried like a torch: "The liberty of America is the hope of the universe...
King Haakcon VII came in for a little court jesting on the eve of his 75th birthday. Norway's Danish-born monarch granted audience to Danish-born Axel Lund, who runs a number of Norwegian hotels. The King said that he was happy to meet a Dane who had done so well in Norway. Replied Lund: "So am I, Your Majesty...
...last week, on his gist birthday, his beard bristled as of old. "Get out! Go!" he railed at a London Evening Standard newsman who had distantly referred to his birthday. "The man who even utters the word 'birthday' . . . is no friend of mine. . . . Good afternoon. Don't come again...
...possible. . . ." Of Marx's Das Kapital: "Little Dorrit is a more seditious book . . . All over Europe men and women are in prison for pamphlets and speeches which are to Little Dorrit as red pepper to dynamite." Said Shaw's literary executor, Dr. F. E. Loewenstein, in birthday tribute: "We have not yet heard the last of Shaw. He might still be hanged as a rebel or canonized as a saint...