Word: born
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doors, side by side and almost exactly alike, might confuse the unaccustomed visitor at the penthouse of the fashionable Manhattan apartment house at 570 Park avenue. In the early morning of a day last week, they confused the tenant of the penthouse. British-born. 35-year-old H. Gordon Duval, publisher of The Club-Fellow, society weekly, rose early to tend his shrubs. He intended to open the bathroom door. But he opened the elevator door instead. He fell the length of the shaft, 14 stories, to instant death...
...Born. To Generalfeldmarschall Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, President of the German Republic, a grandson, the first to bear the venerable name of Hindenburg...
Died. Leo Ditrichstein, 63, famed Hungarian-born actor (Trilby), playwright (The Great Lover) ; in Auersperg, Austria; of heart disease. Less than four years ago retired from the U. S. stage, sold his U. S. possessions, spoke loudly on the deplorable condition of the U. S. theatre, deplorable invasion of the cinema, and the deplorable tempo of U. S. life, then sailed for Europe forever...
...personnel of the company from the beginning was made up of men who knew and loved fine things, mechanically and artistically, so the company was born to occupy the fine car field...
...couldn't lay claim this time to its being autobiography." Himself a Lancastrian, "Horn" grew up with all the folklore of a yarn-swapping race, and out of remembered bits from the mouths of old men he has woven a maundering tale of his Viking ancestors: Young Harold, born with webbed hands and feet -emblem of luck in a seagoing world-set out a-pirating with a crew of other "elderly boys"; the climax to their voyage, a sharp exchange of their arrows for rocks catapulted from the majestic ship of none other than "Julius Seaser...