Word: fathering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Birthday. Georges Clemenceau, French War Prime Minister; at St. Vincent-sur-Jard. Age: 88. Said he: "My mother lived to be 83 years old, my father, 87. At 88, I am in the danger zone. I do not ask for death, neither do I fear it. I await it. I shall die this year...
...sold some $47,000,000 worth of White trucks and buses; of an internal hemorrhage, after an automobile accident; at Cleveland. Driving to work in a Stutz, he carromed into another car, hurtled into a vacant lot, fractured his right hip and leg. Out of the relics of his father's White Sewing Machine Co. grew White Motor Co., first manufacturing steam cars. Since 1921 he had been the company's president. During the War he was one of a committee to supervise U. S. Army motor transport, was made Chevalier de la Legion D'Honneur...
Died. Ulysses Simpson Grant Jr., 77, son of the U. S. President; at Sandberg Lodge, near Los Angeles, Calif.; of heart failure. A Harvard graduate (1874), for a short time his father's secretary at the White House, he turned to law in Manhattan, practiced there 17 years. Never famed, he received public attention for: 1) His notorious defeat when a candidate for the U. S. Senate from California (1898) after which he was charged with election corruption, was later exonerated; 2) His erection, as a realtor, of the U. S. Grant Hotel in San Diego at a cost...
Died. James Rosedale Wadel Ward, 103, linguist, physician, diplomat, onetime private secretary to Empress Eugenie of France; in Manhattan. He spoke 21 languages, seven dialects, was with explorer Sir Henry Norton Stanley in Africa. Upon his father's death (age: 106) Mr. Ward succeeded him as British consul in Palestine...
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. was born in 1907 to his father's first wife, Anna Beth Sully, daughter of a soapmaker. He went to various schools in Paris and London, learned to talk good French and heard enough Englishmen talk to fabricate with fair success the English accent he uses in The Careless Age. Partly because his father did not want him to be an actor, he studied sculpture and painting for a while and, like most expensively educated young men, wrote some poetry that was never published. He worked in a few pictures as an extra and showed...