Word: grandchildren
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Potent Centenarian. One Richard Ferris, potent, indomitable, waved aside his children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and his toddling great-great-grand-daughter as they sought to prevent his departure from London last week to celebrate his 100th birthday by riding to hounds. Said he, "I prefer to die in the saddle!" That evening he returned alive, sipped his port...
...foreign debt settlements. He is watching his 82nd year flicker defiantly; he sees the Permanent Court of International Justice (World Court), which he helped to found in 1920, bandied about between Senate reservations and counter reservations (TIME, Oct. 4.). He hears politicians and editors, young enough to be his grandchildren, say that World Court membership for the U. S. is becoming impossible; he reads that the Official Spokesman (Mr. Coolidge), young enough to be his son, thinks the international outlook is gloomy. Perhaps Mr. Root is sitting at a desk in his Manhattan home writing his last great speech...
Judge Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, 77, son of famed novelist Charles Dickens: "I celebrated my golden wedding last week, rejoiced in my six children and 16 grandchildren, mourned my youngest son who was killed during the war. Lady Dickens' three sisters who were her bridesmaids at our wedding 50 years ago, were with us last week. One came from Germany, one from the U. S., and the third has always lived in London...
Seven Democrats and three Republicans can tell their constituents (as well as their children, grandchildren, etc.) that they had perfect attendance records in the House during the first session of the 69th Congress. These Representatives never missed a roll call, whether for a quorum or a vote: Cannon,† Missouri; Green, Florida; Hill, Washington; Huddleston, Alabama; Quin and Rankin, Mississippi; Swank, Oklahoma, Democrats; McLaughlin and Mapes, Michigan; Miller, Washington, Republicans...
...could remember Romancers Jules Verne or H. G. Wells having compassed a greater imaginative flight than Herr Rumpler. Yet many a newspaper reader with an open mind about the future filed away the despatch from Dusseldorf for their grandchildren to muse over some...