Word: born
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. If we think on these things, there will be born in us a Savior and over us will shine a star sending its gleam of hope to the world...
More intimately, Lawyer Buckner is a hard-working Midlander who, later in life and with greater effort than most men, trained his brain at Harvard and became an outstanding metropolitan trial lawyer. Born in Pottawatomie County, Iowa, he was a 24-year-old court reporter, married and with no means of support beyond shorthand stenography, when he determined to become a lawyer. His wife and his shorthand were what helped him through the University of Nebraska. Between classes at the Harvard Law School he was secretary to Philosopher William James. Among his classmates was Elihu Root Jr., under whose father...
...called upon for a momentary snatch of acting, she is competent. Her well-shaped shoulders support a weak story and expensively featureless directing. The dusty hills and mountains of darkest Tibet are spectacular but they are not, one suspects, very far far from Southern California. Actress Gilda Gray was born in Poland to a poor man named Michelsky. He named his daughter Mariana, emigrated to New Jersey, worked hard in a packing plant. Mariana grew up to marry a bartender who was also a bad character; when she left him, she got a job at $8 a week singing...
...Born. To Captain and Mrs. Archibald B. Roosevelt, a third daughter; in Manhattan...
...Book. "Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters and iced champagne. ... I was born under the star of Aphrodite...