Word: grandchild
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hiram Edward Manville (asbestos) sailed for Sweden on their new $1,000,000 yacht Hi-Esmaro with the family physician, Dr. Horace Eddy Robinson, to visit their daughter, Estelle, Countess Bernadotte, wife of King Gustav's nephew. Purpose: to be on hand at the prospective birth of a grandchild. Manhattanites were talking about Raymond Duncan, eldest brother of the late Danseuse Isadora Duncan.- He arrived in their midst as Paris has known him for years-clad as an ancient Greek. Manhattan pedestrians gaped at his homespun toga, his sandals, his long-flowing, fillet-bound locks. Apostle...
...borne an illegitimate child, should attend his party, having seen his own joy permeate and weld the lot, his last wish is gratified by the budding passion of his great-grandchildren Trino and Currita, which allows him to hope that he will live to fondle his first great-great-grandchild...
...hard bowler hat motored to Windsor Castle early last week to kiss the King's hand, resign as Prime Minister of Great Britain. Waiting at the palace door to receive him was the King's equerry and grouse-shooting friend, Col. Sir Clive Wigram, and King George's favorite grandchild, little Princess Elizabeth, soberly staring over the top of her perambulator. Stanley Baldwin bowed solemnly to "P'incess Lilybet," who continued to stare, and entered the palace. For half an hour he remained closeted with the King, who was still in bed. When he emerged, Prime Minister Baldwin no longer...
...presence of small children in the White House immediately after Inauguration and for some time subsequent, also helped pitch the White House in a new key. One of the first articles of furniture to be moved in was a crib for Grandchild Herbert Hoover 3rd, aged 13. The house was his. He romped and played and chortled up and down its long upstairs corridor. Oldtime servitors had not seen such family fun since the days of the Roosevelts...
DEMOCRATS Items Notable among Brown Derby campaign items of the week were the following: Arthur Smith Jr., 30-month-old grandchild, lifted up his small, lisping voice and sang "The Sidewalks of New York" for a "talkie" film at Albany. With Jefferson, the Great Dane, nearby, he was not afraid. Nor was it "baloney" to him. He sang earnestly, correctly, to the end. George J. Anderson, president of the Consolidated Coal Co. (Rockefeller, "largest U. S. producers of soft coal,") declared for Smith and said: "The present administration has not disguised its hostility to West Virginia's basic interest...