Word: scionness
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...assorted camp followers of the Vanderhpf-Sycamore menage pass their time playing the xylophone, experimenting with false faces and training pet birds. Thus when Alice Sycamore (Jean Arthur), the only member of the family normal enough to work for a living, falls in love with her boss (James Stewart), scion of the fabulously rich and conventional Anthony P. Kirbys, it occasions not only a meeting between the two clans but a Homeric clash of creeds...
...bizarre rigmarole about a desert scion who kidnaps a dancing girl (Vilma Banky), The Son of the Sheik delighted audiences of its day .chiefly because it permitted the most famed matinee idol in cinema history to play a dual role-the Sheik and the Sheik's son, who is finally rescued by the Sheik from a cutthroat gang. Immediate consequence of its successful revival was naturally a race between proprietors of other old Valentino pictures to get their products to the screen. Also on view was The Sheik (1921), which, as an example of an even cruder school...
Prince Johannes zu Loewenstein is not a roulette player himself. Scion of an ancient noble German line, he is a 37-year-old Doctor of Philosophy who lives in Vienna, a brother of Hubertus Loewenstein, prominent German Catholic. Passing through Baden two years ago, tall, solemn Prince Loewenstein stopped at the casino to watch a roulette table in action. He was impressed by the jitters of notetakers who tried to write down not only the numbers which turned up, but their colors, their positions on the transverse and vertical rows of the betting cloth and various other group affiliations. There...
...virgin territory, some 200 miles north of Bombay and eleven miles from the nearest railway. It was on the vast estates of fierce-mustached, smoldering-eyed, trembling-lipped Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel, one of mild Saint Gandhi's wealthiest followers. As might be expected, this great mogul, scion of a rich Bombay family of landed proprietors, is no radical. He insists that "In accordance with ancient Indian tradition we must see that the landlord ever remains the father and guardian of his tenants!" But although he is violently opposed to the Socialistic tenets of many of his fellow party members...
...Scion of a family that has always managed to find more than one way to skin a political cat, Wisconsin's Progressive young Governor Philip Fox La Follette last year tried a new way of getting after his State's privately owned utility companies. Since Wisconsin's Constitution prevented the State from launching publicly owned utilities, ingenious Phil La Follette got four of his associates headed by Republican Assemblyman Charles Perry to charter a private corporation named Wisconsin Development Authority. Ostensible purpose of WDA, for which the La Follette-controlled legislature authorized annual grants, was to engage...