Word: scionness
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...husband of a U. S. heiress,* was sentenced to nine months in jail for pawning jewels which did not belong to him. His Grace repeated his most famed phrase: "The trouble is I have been a mug." Also proved a noble "mug" was the fourth Lord Revelstoke, handsome young scion of the House of Baring, whose father was a famed British financier and whose mother was the daughter of U. S. Tobaccoman Pierre Lorillard. Suing for breach of promise, one Angela Joyce, "Miss England of 1930," produced a sheaf of letters written by Lord Revelstoke when he was a Cambridge...
Delivering judgment last week, Life Peer Hugh Pattison Macmillan, Baron Macmillan of Aberfeldy and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, stressed the essential point that Scion Astor, in setting up his U. S. trust, "reserved the right to revoke the trust wholly or in part during his life." Hereafter Heir Astor will pay British income tax only on that part of his U. S. income which is brought into Great Britain...
Most striking evidence of this return to form was the behavior of Senator Wagner of New York. Twenty-five years ago Robert Wagner, son of a German janitor in Manhattan, served in the New York Legislature with Franklin Roosevelt, aristocratic scion of an old Dutch family. Together they fought for liberal social legislation, became fast friends. "Bob" Wagner went on to the Senate while "Frank" Roosevelt was in training for the Presidency at Albany as Governor. Last year Senator Wagner served as chief advocate at the Capitol of President Roosevelt's New Deal for labor. Last week Senator Wagner...
Breeder Prentice bought his first bull two decades ago. A handsome, impeccably pedigreed creature, it cost Breeder Prentice $10,000 and turned out to be sterile. That was probably the first come-uppance smart Mr. Prentice ever had. He was born 71 years ago, scion of an old Albany family in which pedigreed cattle had long been a hobby. He sped through Amherst and Harvard Law School, went to Chicago, got a reputation as one of the city's ablest and coldest young men, made friends with Cyrus McCormick, became general counsel for Illinois Steel. At the turn...
...tabloid mind, piously supposed to be plebeian, is no respecter of family. Last week, if further proof were needed, Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. hastened to clinch the matter. Scion of a name that in three generations has become legendary to U. S. gumchewers as the label of aristocratic wealth, Author Vanderbilt did his feebly sensational best to throw his tribe into scareheads. It was his tenth book; the only real news about it was that smart Publishers Simon & Schuster were bringing...