Word: born
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would like to see a correction made in a statement in TIME [April 19, p. 7] concerning General Wood. He was not born in "a small Massachusetts seacoast town" but in Winchester, N. H. TIME is a very valuable paper and I hope it will maintain a high standard of accuracy...
Shortly after midnight on the following morning Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, the Home Secretary, was roused from his bed and summoned to the house in which the Duchess lay, according to immemorial royal custom.† At 2:40 a. m. a daughter was born. Her first act, according to witnesses, was to yawn at Sir William Joynson-Hicks...
...Should college men turn to the stage for their careers? No, unless a man feels that he is born for the stage. It is hopeless for one untalented, regardless of one's wealth and one's education, to make a success on the stage. It is a game based on the survival of the fittest, and a young man could struggle until his hair is gray without obtaining the least success. Stage life is a 'hand to mouth' proposition...
...Born. To Mrs. Burton S. Tucker, 53, and Tucker, 20, their second child, a son; at Los Angeles. Their marriage, three years ago, gained them national fame and resulted in their indictment on charges of conspiracy and perjury to conceal Mr. Pucker's age (17). Last week their ages were entered on the birth certificate...
...Born of Irish stock in Cheshire 68 years ago, he supplemented his schooling with private tuition in science and modern literature. He entered business, but at 23 became a proofreader for the Newcastle Chronicle. Within six weeks he was writing some of that paper's leading editorials. Contributions to the national reviews brought him wider notice, a position on the London Telegraph and the editorship, in 1905, of the Weekly Outlook. Three years later Northcliffe snapped him up for the Sunday Observer, which Garvin transformed into a magazine-newspaper with 250,000 circulation...