Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Attorney-General. William DeWitt Mitchell, as a Minnesota boy, yearned to be an electrical engineer. Fishing in the Mississippi, he carried screws, coils, wire and switches in his jeans as well as worms and tackle. His father was by way of becoming a distinguished justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court when the callow son said he had no use for law because he "never knew a lawyer who amounted to very much." He played the mandolin and mumble-dy-peg, went to Lawrenceville. played lacrosse, went to the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale...
...Brown, whose father was once Toledo postmaster, put aside a newspaper career to become a lawyer. The law led to politics. Mr. Brown climbed from ward captain to county boss. In 1912 he went a-maying with the Bull Moose party, but four years later was back in the Republican fold. On the fringe of the "Ohio gang," he was called to Washington by President Harding to draw up a tidy plan for reorganizing the government. Mr. Brown obeyed, diligently. His plan went into a pigeon hole and its author returned to Toledo...
...Adams family has sailed far and famously in U. S. history. Mr. Adams's father was John Quincy, four times defeated Democratic candidate for Massachusetts Governor. Mr. Adams's uncles were Charles Francis Jr., colonel of a Negro cavalry regiment in the Civil War and onetime president of the Union Pacific R. R., and Henry, autobiographer of The Education of Henry Adams. Mr. Adams's grandfather was Charles Francis, U. S. envoy to England during the Civil War. His great-grandfather was John Quincy, sixth U. S. President and, earlier, minister to The Hague and to Berlin...
Appropriately born at Quincy, at ten he was scudding over Quincy Bay in a sail boat, out to Hangman's Island, where his father doted on the smelt-fishing. At twelve he was racing his own little boats and, soon after, sailing with Capt. Crocker on the sloop Shadow. Then came his string of "oo" boats-Papoose (1887), Babboon (35-footer), Gossoon (40-footer) in which he beat Capt. Charles Barr in the Scotch cutter Minerva; Harpoon (1892) in which he won the Goelet Cup at Newport; and the Rooster and Crooner. He is a stern skipper...
...three persons designated to receive a peerage one has died in the meantime. No matter. The dead man's son, Urban R. Broughton, will receive that to gain which his late, rich father, Urban H. Broughton, perpetrated so many philanthropies-including the donation of Ashridge Park to the nation...