Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...probably was not Alphonso XIII, but one of the old Persian or Parthian kings, whose name I am unable to remember, although you, doubtless, can find it. The monarch referred to may have been Chosroes, but, whoever he was, he was born some time after the death of his father, whose demise made imperative the selection of a new king. Since the queen was with child, and since the astrologers said that it was a boy, the crown was carried in and placed upon the queen above the supposed location of the unborn infant's head. In this respect...
Subscriber Gladys Slaughter originally rebuked TIME for not displaying Maracay as the place where "the original bachelor father," President Juan Vincente Gomez of Venezuela, lives with his "Reigning Favorite . . . and what's more at least 60 of his 84 acknowledged children." To Dictator Gomez a thoroughgoing rebuke, if his minions have kept from Subscriber Slaughter the issue of TIME in which her letter appeared...
...large thick man, full jawed, pleasant-faced, Col. Grant will be 48 come Independence Day. His father was Maj. Gen. Frederick Dent Grant, son of the Soldier President. The Colonel was graduated from West Point in 1903, did the usual round of foreign duty, married the daughter of Elder Statesman Elihu Root. He has three daughters of his own, but no U.S. Grant IV. In the War he was a member of the U.S. General Staff Corps, on the official fringe of the Paris Peace Conference...
...Father Germain Foch S. J. survives Marshal Foch...
...gift to the Harvard Gun Club of a silver trophy to be awarded annually to that member of the Club who scores the best 100 in a handicap shoot of 50 birds straight traps and 50 birds skeet. The donor of the cup, G. H. Dorr '97, is father of R. H. Dorr '29, captain of the Club skeet team...