Word: born
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...born in County Cork to Senor Visian de Valera, a Spaniard, and the onetime Kate Coll of Limerick...
Temperamentally offended by personal publicity, Raquel Meller has been the inspiration for much befuddled biography. It is, however, generally agreed that she was born in Saragossa, in Aragon, Spain, between 30 and 40 years ago. Some say that her parents were performers. She was taught to sew?at which art she went nearly blind once?and to sing Vespers in a convent, from which she escaped with the help of the gardener's ladder...
Near Denver, Col., one Meeples Moe, Norwegian -born beet-field worker, captured a baby squirrel four years ago, trained it to indicate by jerking its tail under which of two teacups had been placed...
Friends of the Judge chuckled to recall that his age has been kept out of the U.S. "Who's Who." Inquisitive persons who perused that work, last week, were rebuffed by the statement that he was born "on father's farm nr. Wheaton, Ill." son of "Erastus and Susan" Gary...
...writing reflects the true instinct and feeling of a born naturalist, and he has long been accepted as the peer of men like Ernest Thompson Seton and the late Jack London. Acclaim has come not only from naturalists but? much more important?from hosts of readers who know what's what about storytelling. That celebrated field naturalist, Director William T. Hornaday of the New York Zoological Park, has paid tribute to Mr. Hawkes' "marvelous fidelity" in describing the sunlit world he knew so briefly and in supplementing (as all good nature writing must be supplemented) with lore from trappers, hunters...