Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President-Emeritus of William and Mary college. Shortly after his 70th birthday Lyon Gardner took a second wife (Sue Ruffin, whose ancestor fired the first gun at Fort Sumter) and before he was 73 she bore him a son. Last fortnight 75-year-old Doctor Tyler became the father of another son. Thus were 139 years spanned and spent from the first presidency to the election of the 31st president, including an administration of their own by two generations of the potent Presidential Tylers of Virginia...
...with even "Political Boss" Stalin is due largely to his influence with the great mass of peasants and secondly to his long and impeccable record as a revolutionary. At 14 he began to work intermittently in a cartridge factory at St. Petersburg, during the slack winter season on his father's farm, and was almost at once fired with the pure flame of Revolution. His success in interpreting citified Marxian doctrines to peasant friends at home was phenomenal. Soon enough, however, the Imperial Police transformed his life into a long, incessant struggle punctuated with arrests and finally with banishment...
...that her own family, the great House of Soong, is more potent. Mrs. Chiang's brother is Finance Minister T. V. Soong; one of her brothers-in-law is the 75th lineal descendant of Confucius, H. H. Kung; a second was the late Dr. Sun Yatsen, sainted father of the Nationalist Party which now dominates all China. Since Mrs. Hoover's father was a prosperous American banker and Mrs. Chiang's a vastly rich Chinamerchant, neither has ever been in meager circumstances...
Sixteen years ago, when William Bramwell Booth succeeded his father, the late General William Booth, as commander-in-chief of the Salvation Army, the younger Booth was presumed to have chosen his own successor in traditional Salvation Army fashion. The present incumbent, according to tradition, names his favorite brother or sister "in arms," writing his choice on a slip of paper, which he files with his solicitors, which is not opened until Death necessitates a substitution. But William Bramwell Booth's aides-de-camp would have done with the Booth dynasty. Although William Bramwell Booth has two sons, Generals...
...Sunken Bell. His paternal progenitors, with their clanging names, were great men in Trieste; one of them, Moissi Golemi, was a general under the Albanian national hero Scanderbeg. His mother, extant at 86, is a descendant of one Carlo di Radis, a famed Italian physician. Moissi's father was a merchant in Trieste and it was there, in 1880, on the day after April Fool's, that Alexander Moissi was born...