Word: 66th
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When Novelist John Buchan, first Baron Tweedsmuir (for his Scottish birthplace) of Elsfield (for his home in Oxford), died last February in his 66th year, his fifth as Governor General of Canada, he had already finished the autobiography his career made inevitable. This provision was of a piece with the career-workmanlike, ordered, conscientious, religiously dutiful -which the last of John Buchan's 50-odd books records...
...ranged from the Greater Cleveland Council, Smaller Business of America, Inc. to the Young Women's Republican Club of New York. It included the German-American Congress for Democracy (with 2,000 New York City members to begin with, and branches being organized in six other States), the 66th annual meeting of the American Neurological Association (see pg. 42-the Bronx Chamber of Commerce, Kansas county citizens' defense councils. Governors were for it-Lehman of New York, Stark of Missouri, Murphy of New Hampshire-as well as the leaders...
...Horse-Mr. Big or Miss Big, as the case may be. Last week Colonel Edward Riley Bradley's Bimelech was tagged Mr. Big and loomed so large that he made Shetlands of a dozen other three-year-olds who will go to the post for the 66th running of the $75,000 Derby at Churchill Downs this week...
...quacked hard sense to a dozen assorted California Democrats in 36 crowded hours, got them to agree on a consolidated headless ticket, thus sending 48 harmony delegates to Chicago July 15. Then Mr. Ickes solemnly assured reporters he was in California solely on Interior affairs, headed East, passing his 66th birthday on the train...
Because his birthday (66th) fell on St. Patrick's Day, Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise of Manhattan was made an honorary member of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick of Bridgeport, Conn...