Word: born
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father's name was Elijah, and his mother's name was Eunice, and he was born at Westchester Landing on the Bronx River in New York in 1807. His Quaker parents christened him Ezra...
...Born. To Peggy Conklin, 29, sometime cinemactress (The President Vanishes), stage star (The Petrified Forest; Yes, My Darling Daughter), and her Manhattan broker husband, James Daniel Thompson: their first child, a daughter; in Greenwich, Conn...
...handful of uncoordinated agencies and save the U. S. farmer from foreclosure. As a boy he worked on a wheat farm in Saskatchewan, got a first-hand knowledge of soil problems. A shrewd banker with an incredible memory for figures, Governor Hill still talks like the farmer he was born in Kansas...
...this summer, could extend Defending Champion Donald Budge and become the first player to take a set from him. Even that was disappointing. Budge annihilated Wood, 6-3, 6-3, 6-3, in a match almost as unexciting as the other semi-final in which his doubles partner, Budapest-born Gene Mako, unseeded because of insufficient singles play, pricked the big Bromwich bubble, 6-3, 7-5. 6-4. For the first time since the Tilden-Hunter final in 1929, a pair of U. S. doubles champions faced one another for the Singles championship...
...Door of Life she has taken on a bigger theme, which she describes as "the relationship of a mother and young children and unborn children and just-born children," adding her belief that her novel is "the first attempt to portray the very first moments of this relationship in de-tail." Whether or not it is the first attempt, Enid Bagnold's admirers are likely to hope that it will be her last, since The Door of Life gives such a rosy view of the joys of motherhood, contains so many lush emotional passages and so many unreal philosophical...