Word: scionness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scenario. Janey Davenport, fabulously an heiress, famously a beauty, jaunts over to Italy in her own yacht. Fortunately for the love interest, her entourage includes two clean-limbed Anglo-Saxons, and the scion of a noble French family. At twenty-six Janey has experienced everything but true love. Disillusioned therefore regarding the tender passion, she rejects her three seagoing suitors, and resolves to barter her wealth and her person for some prince in reduced circumstances...
Members of Britain's nether classes often refer collectively to those above as "Them." Enviously they know that a man child born to "Them" can take the soft path that leads through Oxford or Cambridge and then on to Place & Power. Such a scion of "Them" is David George Brownlow Cecil, Lord Burghley, 23, who ran through Cambridge as a track star, and was appointed last week a Justice of the Peace at Peterborough...
Engaged. Genevieve Carpenter, daughter of famed composer John Alden Carpenter ("Skyscraper Ballet"), to J. Elliot Cabot, Boston scion. When Miss Carpenter made her début in 1922 at a musicale in Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Pianist Rubenstein played the program...
Married. Potter D'Orsay Palmer, 23, Chicago scion, grandson of the late socially famed Mrs. Potter Palmer; to Eleanora Goldsmith, 16-year-old high-school junior; of Sarasota, Fla. Telegrams sent to 67 Florida county judges by the Potter family failed to halt the ceremony; the eloping couple were married by a justice of peace at Fort Meade...
Engaged. Horace E. Dodge, Detroit scion, to Miss Muriel Sisman, daughter of Andrew Sisman, Detroit contractor...