Word: born
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...propose to give you a constitution of the type the Irish people themselves would choose if Great Britain were a million miles away." Last November fiery, wild-eyed, Manhattan-born Eamon de Valera, President of the Irish Free State, bit these words off as distracted Britain stood on the brink of the Edward-Simpson crisis...
...talk with Mr. Santayana it is as difficult to pigeon-hole him as a "type" as it is to pigeon-hole his philosophy. He's not an American, though he was educated there; he's not a Spaniard, though he was born one. He's more the ancient Greek somehow or other brought up in the 19th century England. Though he dislikes "the taste of academic straw" he's a scholar who zealously fools his work. He has the greatness of genius, and yet the common sense of one richly human. Like the ancients, he would make philosophy...
First U. S. kindergarten was started in 1856 in Watertown, Wis. by Mrs. Carl Schurz, wife of the famed Thuringian revolutionary who became Lincoln's Minister to Spain, Hayes's Secretary of the Interior and the first German-born citizen to sit in the U. S. Senate.* Under such auspices the kindergarten soon attracted philanthropists. Phoebe Apperson Hearst, mother of William Randolph, opened one for the children in her husband's mining community at Lead, S. Dak. and financed the Parent-Teachers' Association mainly to promote the kindergarten movement...
...Current German-born Senator: New York's Robert Ferdinand Wagner...
Elizabeth was going to have another baby. Robert knew enough about it to be embarrassed; when the news was broken to Bunny, he was simply hostile to the idea, wanted his mother to think better of it. Because Elizabeth had had a hard time when the other children were born, she was to go away to a hospital in a neighboring city. It was the winter of 1918, when the flu epidemic was ravaging the country. Bunny was the first to come down with it. After his recovery, he and Robert were packed off to an aunt's while...