Word: scionness
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...Philip Sassoon, a handsome, immaculate Jew, has had an astounding career for a man of his age. Scion of two immensely wealthy families? the Sassoons and the Rothschilds?he is one of the richest men in England. His enemies ascribe much of his rapid advancement to his money, although all who know him have called him able...
...Prittwitz, as he likes to be known, is 44 years old, scion of an old Prussian family, the son of Colonel Max von Prittwitz...
Bernard Marmaduke FitzAlan-Howard, Premier Duke and Earl and Hereditary Marshal and Chief Butler of England, Earl of Arundel, Earl of Surrey, Earl of Norfolk, Baron Maltravers, Baron FitzAlan, Baron Clun, Baron Oswaldestre, 19-year-old scion of one of England's oldest families, Roman Catholic, last week "flunked" responsions-college entrance examination at Oxford. The young Duke has never been to school, but has been "educated" privately by a tutor. It may have been argued that his aristocratic lineage entitled him to many privileges, but Oxford has long been noted for its democratic independence. Magdalen College refused...
...fourth Earl of Mexborough and his Countess three score years and one ago. She was christened Anne, and as she grew up was familiar in London society as Lady Anne Savile. At the age of 31 she was taken to wife by Prince Ludwig Karl zu Loewenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, scion of South German nobility. Two years later the Princess Loewenstein-Wertheim was a widow, when the Prince fell fighting against the U. S. in Philippine skirmishes of the Spanish-American war. Not until 1912 was the Princess again heard from prominently. In that year she flew (as passenger) across...
Engaged. The divorced onetime Countess Salm von Hoogstraeten, originally prominent Miss Millicent Rogers of Manhattan; to a rich Argentinean scion, Arthur Perlata Ramos, of Buenos Aires...