Word: born
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...myth that President Coolidge was born in Vermont; neither is it a fable that Vermont celebrated the 150th anniversary of its independence last week. John Chipman Farrar, earnestly playful editor of the Bookman, composed an ode to commemorate the event. An excerpt...
...amount to anything and wouldn't advise anybody to invest in it." Horace H. Rackham had $5,000 that he hoped would grow. Mr. Couzens' sister, Mrs. Rosetta V. Hauss placed $100 in the pie. These people and a few others had children and grandchildren who were born with silver spoons in their mouths. Today the living and the heirs of the dead are being sued by the U. S. Govern-ment for a thousand times the amount of their original invest- ment...
...Queen-Empress there have been born no children for 21 years.* Yet as Her Majesty re- tired at Buckingham Palace one evening last week, she was pleasantly conscious that a room adjoining her bedchamber sheltered an infant princess. Her Majesty and the rest of the royal family had partaken of an unusually frugal meal. No soup was served, and everything was cooked with as little grease as possible. Such a dinner is Her Majesty's invariable precaution against queasiness of the stomach when she is in expectancy of taking a sea voyage. The soupless royal meal was served...
...Born. To Alfred Emanuel Smith, Governor of New York, a grandson, the second son of his son Arthur...
...Born. To Mr. and Mrs. Leopold Anton Stanislaw Stokowski, a daughter; in Manhattan. Mr. Stokowski, famed Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra conductor, married (TIME, Jan. 25, 1926) Miss Evangeline Brewster Johnson, daughter of a founder of Johnson & Johnson, famed medicinal chemical firm. He has one daughter, Sonia, by his previous wife, Pianist Olga Samaroff, now New York Evening Post musical critic, from whom he was divorced...