Word: scionness
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Eloped. Marion Snowden, 21, of Minneapolis, daughter of the late Oilman James Hastings Snowden (Snowden & McSweeney Co.) ; and Prince Geronimo Rospigliosi, 24, scion of one of Italy's oldest houses; in Rome. Miss Snowden's family, it was reported, made determined efforts to forestall the marriage...
Cocos Island is an uninhabited spot of jungle in the Pacific, fabled rendezvous of pirates, 500 mi. southwest of Panama. There last week paused the yacht Camargo, carrying Julius Fleischmann, yeast scion, his wife & two small children and three friends on a two-year cruise of the world. To their astonishment the Fleischmann party found signs of life ashore, discovered the abandoned camp of three shipwrecked sailors whose yawl West Wind sailed from San Diego last December. A note stated that the castaways had struck into the interior 48 hr. earlier in search of food because they had exhausted...
This picture concerns an elderly plutocrat (Heggie); his attractive second wife (Damita); and his son, an amorous prodigal (Lester Vail) who returns from abroad to become sexually interested in his stepmother. Finally, the scion goes away by himself and Damita embraces Heggie, who leers in a manner reminiscent of Daddy Browning...
This time Warner Baxter is the hero, Lupe Velez the svelte squaw who consoles him on the Arizona prairies. A scion of British aristocracy, he has left England after appropriating the disgrace of an embezzlement committed by a cousin and after saying farewell to the cousin's wife, with whom he is in love. When the cousin's wife, finally a widow, goes to Arizona, the picture has a halfway happy ending because the squaw, having contracted the habit of self-sacrifice, kills herself...
...Nationalist Government moved promptly for relief. A committee was organized at Shanghai with the ablest man in Chiang Kai-shek's Cabinet at its head, Finance Minister T. V. Soong, Harvard man, scion of the great "Soong Dynasty" of Shanghai bankers, and President Chiang Kai-shek's brother-in-law. Minister Soong adjusted his glasses, went to work...