Word: born
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...issue of TIME for April 26, p. 6, Oklahoma is described as "the state which was born dry." Although you in no sense imply that it was unique in this matter, it is worth mentioning perhaps that North Dakota was "born" under similar conditions 18 years earlier...
...Born. To the Duke and Duchess of York, a daughter; in London. (See COMMONWEALTH...
...Born. To Mrs. Henry Sturgis Morgan, daughter-in-law of Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, and a descendant of John Quincy Adams...
...Jack Johnson, conducts an exclusive gymnasium and reducing establishment in Manhattan. He has many rich patrons. Last week one of them, delighted with her reduction, gave a party for him. To that party was bidden the brother of Philadelphia Jack O'Brien?Young Jack O'Brien (born 1895)?who won decisions over Ad Wolgast, K. O. Brown and Young Erne, and who now owns a gymnasium like his brother's. Although 17 years the younger, he became, as the evening wore on, increasingly critical of his brother's prowess. Mr. O'Brien soon rose from his chair...
...Author. Gilbert Frankau conducts a political column in a London paper of two million circulation, the Sunday Pictorial. He is "one of the best ten after-dinner speakers in England." But he is primarily an experienced novelist of great technical skill and equally great popularity. Born 42 years ago, he was educated at Eton and later in the trenches. His wife is Aimee, daughter of the late Robert de Burgh...