Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Davison Rockefeller Jr., 55, is 5 ft, 10 in. tall, weighs 170 Ibs., and has six children. As a youngster he broke stone and split wood on his father's estate in Cleveland for 15¢ an hour, also earned 5¢ an hour for practicing on the violin. Now he keeps in condition by playing squash and using gymnasium apparatus. He is one of the quietest men in the public...
...Robert Wright Stewart, 62, is 6 ft., 1 in. tall, weighs 240 Ibs., and has four children. As a youngster he drove oxen on his father's farm near Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Now he plays golf and goes to prize fights. He is one of the burliest and most outspoken men in the public...
...suffer interruption. For there was not a shadow of a doubt that he was heart and soul for the son, upon whom rests all affairs of Rockefeller fortune and philanthropy, and who sinks to his knees every night to ask God that he may be more like his father...
Henry Worth (Hank) Thornton was born in Logansport, Ind., in 1871, went to St. Paul's, then to the University of Pennsylvania. At St. Paul's he met James McCrea, whose father was then president of the Pennsylvania railroad. At Pennsylvania, Student Thornton won fame as a line-plunger, helped Penn beat Princeton (1892) and after graduating became football coach at Vanderbilt. He then (1894) entered the Pennsylvania Railroad offices as a draftsman, remained to become (1911) superintendent of the Long Island Railroad...
...benighted Jack boarded the train, having flown in hot pursuit of his runaway wife. Hugely flattered, she remembered to be cross with him; pitched promptly into the political battle, and continued hostilities through and in spite of another of those French railway accidents. Her father-in-law, emerging from a long faint, marveled that she should so tenderly minister to his wounds, the while brutally warring with his son. This modern generation-impossible that they should one moment barely escape death, and the next moment resume their petty quarrel. Had they no nerves, no emotions...