Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Guggenheim fortune began with laces and embroideries in Philadelphia, whither Meyer Guggenheim migrated from Switzerland in 1848. Meyer and Barbara Myers Guggenheim had seven sons. Daniel went to Switzerland when he was but 17 to buy goods for the Philadelphia store. While he was away his father invested in some Colorado mines. When Daniel returned to the U. S. the family moved their lace & embroidery business, as M. Guggenheim's Sons, to Manhattan...
...mining investments promised more fortune. The sons sold the lace & embroidery business and went to Colorado. They finally consolidated a great lead and silver industry. The sons are noted in U. S. business for working as a unit. Daniel's ability was rated akin to genius. After his father, he was the leader of the Guggenheims...
...collected a chapel building fund; for India's heathen. In Rome he was honored as a Cardinal's relative. At gay Biarritz he was the son of Poet Maurice Maeterlinck. With graces and fantasies almost super-Maeterlinckian he solicited $25,000 to erect a statue to his father...
Theophilus Joseph, Negro, is a Harlem elevator man. His wife Henrietta works in a laundry. She wants their 19-year-old foster-son Ronald to follow his foster-father's footsteps and run an elevator. Ronald is not unwilling, but he hopes that perhaps the world holds for him something more purposeful than an elevator. Ronald's reason: last week he had 60 watercolors, charcoal and crayon drawings ?athletes in action, ships in dock?on exhibition in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He had been singled out as the most promising current artist product of New York City...
Like most Germans, Schmeling is musical although he plays no instruments. He was named Siegfried after a father who in turn was named after Composer Wagner's fire-braving hero. Sometimes at Lakewood Max Siegfried is called to dinner by the twanging of a ukulele...