Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...THOSE of you wondering why there were no classes Monday, we were commemorating George Washington's birthday. Abraham Lincoln's birthday, incidentally, was last Tuesday...
Last year, I marked Lincoln's birthday with a certain bravado. At dinner, I toasted "the noblest man to have ever graced this continent...
...greeted with scorn. One person asked, "When is Eugene Debs' birthday?" I'm the last person you'd want to ask that. Some one else informed me that Lincoln was a tyrant...
...that his life, or the first 42 years of it covered here, has been uneventful. In early 1919, around the time of Burgess's second birthday, his mother and older sister died of Spanish influenza. His father, on a furlough from the British army, walked into his Manchester lodgings on a horrid scene: "I, apparently, was chuckling in my cot while my mother and sister lay dead on a bed in the same room." At the end of Little Wilson and Big God, on a Christmas holiday in 1959, the author is told that he has an inoperable brain tumor...
...first day of exams. "Let's hear it for V.D.," remarks a male Adam's House senior. "It's a stupid holiday invented by Hallmark," says a Winthrop Junior. "Valentine's Day? How can you even compare it with the only holiday that really matters--Bruce Willis' birthday?" comments a male Claverly sophomore...