Word: born
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tennessee-born Singer Grace Moore arrived in Manhattan with a Tennessee ham, was asked by photographers to pose with it. As she did so, her pressagent warned: "You know what the caption will be: a couple of Tennessee hams...
...period a soul spends in purgatory) after the death of a Grand Lama, priests throughout the fastnesses of Central Asia watch for eclipses, earthquakes, avalanches, cloudbursts. Where such phenomena occur, the Lama's soul may, on the appointed day, enter the body of an infant about to be born. The mother may identify her holy offspring by other portents & miracles and by seven signs which include a full set of teeth in the babe, a birthmark resembling a tiger's stripes, an ability to utter the name of Buddha. But for the incarnation there are many claimants. These...
...later kept a pair of peafowl. Two Sundays ago in his sermon Dr. Guthrie paid his respects to Bishop William Thomas Manning with whom he had often clashed-"with him came the bigness of head that goes with new office"-and to the Episcopal Church into which he was born: "I don't know any church I could stand as well. It was organized by gentlemen for gentlemen, and you can break the law if you know...
Suzanne Eisendieck was born in Danzig of Polish parents. Her father was a lumber dealer. For two years she studied in Berlin, then moved on to Paris with exactly 300 francs in her thin purse. She got a Montparnasse garret so small that she had to lean halfway out of the window to paint at all. Already she had developed a style. She wanted to paint the mythical world of 1900 (eight years before she was born), when ladies wore feather boas and bright feathers in their hats, when gentlemen had whiskers and drank champagne. Because she was much prettier...
...rolling stone who has picked up considerable polish as he revolved through a number of phases of the publishing business, Paul Gallico was born to an Italian musician in a boarding house. He worked his way through Columbia University as a North River stevedore, Metropolitan Opera usher, gym teacher and German tutor. In his spare hours he played baseball, football, was acting captain of the 1921 Columbia crew after a two-year hitch in the Navy. Somehow he found plenty of time to turn out pulp magazine stories and short newspaper fiction...