Word: scionness
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...exceedingly tempting menu of cinematic entertainments this week. Despite its pretentions and somewhat sickening title the film is one of simple and genuine amusement. The pretty, nicely romantic working girl (very well portrayed by the capable Claudette Colbert) is aided out of a subway crush by the handsome scion of one of England's best families--she doesn't realize the lofty position of the young man and unbothered by class considerations proceeds to fall quite completely in love with him. This puts a mild damper on her friendship with the likeable young newspaper man with whom she munches popcorn...
...seems that a certain Mass Congressmen is going to introduce a bill into the House which will make all organizations that advocate violent overthrow of the existing government unlawful. An told that the San Simson Scion is going to have his newspapers back the little project. Watch all the leftists howl like the devil. They, who kick at the Supreme Court's power of judicial review will scream for it if this little tid-bit is passed. Your correspondent agrees with them heartily, but is inclined to smile at their feminine inconsistency. "There in lies their charm," we suppose...
...Bermuda, three hours out of Hamilton bound" for Manhattan, a husky youngster in knee breeches stepped bravely up to a steward. "My name is Wainwright," said he. "I'm a stowaway, sir, and I'd like some supper." No penniless adventurer was Carroll Livingston Wainwright Jr., 8, but a scion of Manhattan's socialite Livingstons, de Peysters, Wainwrights, great-grandson of Jay Gould, lineal descendant of Peter Stuyvesant. Month ago his mother, divorced from his father, fetched Carroll to Bermuda to live with her and her new husband, Sir Hector Macneal. Last week Carroll walked calmly up the gangplank...
...private chambers of a New York Supreme Court justice in Manhattan one day last month a thin, nervous little girl of 10 sat swinging her spindly legs from a fat leather swivel chair. She was Gloria Vanderbilt, scion of one of the great socialite families of the U.S. Gently questioning her in clipped accents was a judge whose big body filled his ample chair and whose funny little goatee waggled up and down as he talked. An oldtime Tammany politician from the East Side, Justice John Francis Carew had hitherto known Vanderbilts, Whitneys, Astors, Goulds only as so many shadowy...
Divorced. Marshall Field III, Chicago department store scion; by Audrey James Coats Field, goddaughter of King Edward VII; in Reno. Grounds: extreme mental cruelty...