Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Presidents get college degrees without studying for them. Not so for President's sons. Allan Hoover will not graduate with his class at Stanford University this month. Reason: he lost five scholastic months accompanying his father during the campaign and South American tour...
...boys, clad in tan shirts, maroon cravats. Princess Mary wore pink. The Queen, wearing blue and the royal pearls, was vexed by a noisome blue bottle fly on the window pane. Taking a sheet of paper she squashed the offender, after four tries. Edward of Wales talked with his father, not his mother. When Viscount Lascelles lingered in the window, a voice in the crowd chirped: "'Oo wants to see 'IM?'' After ten minutes the Queen spoke decisively to the King and royalty withdrew from sight...
...steady stream. Last week, accompanied by his "beautiful" wife, Queen Thuraya, and his prodigiously fat Brother Inayatullah and his wife, he fled precipitately over the Indian border. At Bombay, two ambulances stood chugging expectantly at the station. Amanullah, in civilized trousers, looked worried. He was about to become a father for the seventh time. Inayatullah was expecting, too, for the fourteenth time. But the expected did not happen. The two ladies reached the Taj Mahal Hotel without the aid of ambulances...
Colonel Lindbergh, wishing to avoid the glare of pitiless publicity, seems to have made a mistake. Neither his office, nor the position of his noted father-in-law, nor the decent requests of the less gossipy papers have modulated the stream of photographers and reporters who harass the Morrow home. Not even the air gives him sufficient freedom to run the blockade of prying printers with success...
...this time father was a rattled wreck; He didn't drink, he had anxiety, My mother, everything; he couldn't solve The money matter. My brother had flown off To work his way through School. And there I was In rooms that fronted on a business street Over a candy shop, there in that old, Lonely and desolate Virginia town...