Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inexperienced. In Los Angeles, a young miss, on a vacation from Seaside, Ore., as a reward for not smoking until her 21st birthday, threw a cigaret butt out of a bedroom window, started a brush fire...
...Life," said Charles Chaplin, on his 58th birthday, "begins at 50. ... The middle years are the mellow ones [without] agonies and tensions." Next day, a Manhattan court recorded a $6,450,000 damage suit against him. After seven years of brooding about the matter, Author Konrad Bercovici claimed that Charlie had "pirated" a Bercovici yarn as the basis of The Great Dictator...
This week London debutantes were rushing off to their dancing academies to learn the new Royal Minuet, prepared as "a tribute to H.R.H. Princess Elizabeth on the occasion of her 21st birthday." The first part (with dance partners side by side, hands crossed in front) was a sprightly gavotte; after that came a quick waltz-step chorus to be danced in ballroom style...
...night before K.'s 31st birthday, two big men in frock coats come for him. "They kept their shoulders close behind his and instead of crooking their elbows, wound their arms around his at full length, holding his hands in a methodical, practised, irresistible grip. K. walked rigidly between them. . . . 'Perhaps they are tenors,' he thought, as he studied their fat, double chins...
...health," observed Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, three years ago to an inquirer, "is as good as any man my age in the country." Marking his eighty-seventh birthday tomorrow, Professor Copeland can find no one to dispute the point any more...