Word: born
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fine state of nerves. Upstairs they found Nurse Louise Roberts and Nurse Ethel Smith, a bucktoothed, grey-haired favorite of the Greek royal family who had just taken a "refresher course" at St. Christopher's Nursery Training College. After eleven months of wedlock George's Greece-born wife, Marina, was almost ready to be delivered of a child. On hand were her father, Prince Nicholas of Greece, her mother, a sister. To represent the father's family there was only Husband George. Sometime past midnight Home Secretary Sir John Simon arrived, to do his official duty...
...royal births to make absolutely certain no foundling was palmed off on the English people (TIME, Sept. 1, 1930). Last week Sir John stayed downstairs, the doctors and nurses being considered witnesses enough to the authenticity of Marina's child. At 2:05 a.m. a boy was born. The doctors took ten minutes to make sure it was hale and unblemished. Then they drew up their bulletin...
...Governor-General approached this week, Canadians rattled off to each other the astonishingly various milestones of his career: Born to a cousin of Gladstone; prizeman at Glasgow Uni-versity and Oxford and President of the Oxford Union; member of the "Balliol Kindergarten";* secret service operative and organizer of the Foreign Office's propaganda bureau during the World War; writer of a World War history in serial form which patriotic parents still give children in the United Kingdom; Director of Information under Prime Minister David Lloyd George (1917-18); M. P. since 1927 for the Scottish Universities; twice...
...best-born pretender in Europe, Otto of Habsburg, ''Emperor of Austria and Apostolic King of Hungary," was so chagrined by George's good luck that he hastened to rebuke Austria for not having done the same for him, indicated that he is the solution to Europe's peace and hoped that Austria would hurry before it was obliged to summon him to rule "a heap of ruins...
...Born. To John Davison Rockefeller III; and Blanchette Ferry Hooker Rockefeller: a daughter, their first child; in Manhattan. Name: Sandra Ferry Rockefeller...