Word: scionness
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...demotion. Under Mr. Wiggin will be: bespectacled Chairman of the Executive Committee John McHugh, who was "discovered" in Sioux City by Gates W. McGarrah ; Chairman of the Board Charles Simonton McCain, who began banking by beginning banks in Arkansas; youthful Vice Chairman of the Board Robert Livingston Clarkson, scion of a banking family; President Winthrop Williams Aldrich, young Rockefeller-sponsored Equitable president. Behind these will be a directorate whose membership is a roster of potency in railroads, copper, chemistry, shipping, insurance, steel, communications...
...Rome last week one Prince Pignatelli. scion of an illustrious line but himself a newshawk for William Randolph Hearst, wrote a short, restrained story which every Hearst editor was careful to print...
...Scion of well-to-do sheep-owners in the Umbrian hills, Pietro Gasparri (not to be confused with his nephew, Enrico Cardinal Gasparri) studied for the priesthood at Nepi, then at the Pontifical Seminary in Rome. There he attracted the favorable attention of potent Cardinal Mertel, Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church, became his secretary. Soon he was professor of Canon Law at the famed Congregatio de Propaganda Fide (TIME, Nov. 18). In 1898 he was elected archbishop, went to Lima as apostolic delegate for Peru, Bolivia & Ecuador. In 1901 he was called to be secretary of the Congregation...
Greatest, perhaps, of tanka turners was Kamo Mabuchi (1697-1769), who claimed to be descended from the divine Three-Legged Crow which guided the first Japanese emperor, Jimmu, in all his conquests. Crow Scion Mabuchi credited whatever evils befell Japan to her contact with "debased Chinese learning." His greatest pupil, Motoori Norinaga (1730-1801) wrote perhaps the most popular and typical of tankas...
...Hill. The hill referred to is that from which San Francisco's substantial families survey the Golden Gate. On its upper slopes a social scion (Lester Vail) becomes engaged to a cinemactress (Katherine Wilson) who, unknown to him, has climbed the hill from a bordello. Seven years have done much to make her forget that dark vale, but when she meets the most aggressive of her former swains, he nearly sends her hurtling down again. Failing that, he forces her to tell her history to her fiance. You are very much afraid that the pleasant fellow will overlook...