Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...education is free and compulsory but only one in ten reaches the sixth grade), only 500 soldiers, 150 priests. Costa Rica's population is increasing phenomenally (27% between 1930 and 1940, compared to a U.S. gain of 7%). But two children out of 15 die before their first birthday...
Another event in London's theatrical week was the second birthday of Arsenic and Old Lace, which Producer Firth Shephard celebrated by repeating his first-night trick: at the final curtain, a slew of London's topnotch comedians (Jack Buchanan, Will Hay, et al.) file onstage to impersonate the "corpses" who had been elderberried in the cellar...
...take a half-hour calisthenic drill : "Hup, hoop, heep, one; hup, hoop, heep, two. . . ." The men whistle when a girl goes by. In the wards, they hop around playing shuffleboard and indoor golf. Some of those still in bed play darts, watch movies. A Red Cross worker brings a birthday cake with candles to a smiling 24-year-old whose leg is fastened to a weight and pulley. In the recreation hall others hear a lecture on the future of Atlanta's housing industry...
...70th birthday last week, Canada's Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King sat down to dinner (oysters and filet mignon) at Ottawa's Chateau Laurier with 40 members of the Parliamentary Press Gallery and their 60 guests. Dinner over, he was presented with a gold card awarding him an Honorary Life Membership in the Press Gallery. Then came the evening's well-kept surprise. A motion was put and carried by a rising vote. The Prime Minister rose, turned to a grey, balding newsman near him at the table...
...oldest member, the most honored and most beloved, this certificate of Honorary Member for Life. May you continue to give valuable service to our country through the years to come in shaping the highest and best of public policy." Charlie Bishop, who had celebrated his own 68th birthday a week before, stood up in his ancient swallowtail and gracefully accepted the tribute...