Word: scionness
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...here I am back in Cambridge again, finding the dear old town quite deserted by the members of the Vagabond family. While Freshmen prepare for English A and Mill Si. 1, and even gentle men talk about studying the official scion of that worthy race wanders far afield, stopping now in a Maine lumbering hut, now in a Montreal saloon, and then in a New York night club as the light fancy of the vacationist happens to prompt him. This is all very well and quite as it should be, but in his absence I feel the urge...
...peer for well-authenticated length or world-wide distinction, Duke K'ung, aged 6. The Duke is 72-times-great-grandson of Confucius.* Where is the university that can boast, as Pennsylvania may be able ten years from now, of having the honor to enlighten a scion of a founder of a 24-century-old philosophy? What bursar has collected fees from the seed of Plato, Aristotle, Buddha or Mohammed? Sheltered in his ducal palace, sustained by a state pension antedating Christianity, served by his stepmother (it is polygamy that has kept Confucius line unbroken) small Duke...
Engaged. Mary Landon Baker, Chicago heiress, famed because four years ago she refused at the church to wed her onetime fiance Allister McCormick (Harvester scion) ; to Bojidar Pouritch, until recently Jugoslav Consul at Chicago...
...senator, because it involved the state machine control shakily assumed by young Senator LaFollette after his famed father's death. The candidate of the LaFollette group was Herman L. Ekern, who was opposed by Fred R. Zimmerman, onetime friend of the elder LaFollette, but hostile to the scion. Mr. Zimmerman won by over 50,000 plurality...
Three years ago his eldest daughter was thrown from a polo pony, killed. Last week, while playing polo with Lord Mountbatten, Duke Peneranda and Lord Wodehouse, Col. Harjes fell from his pony, crushed his skull beneath flying hoofs. Died. Prince Umberto Ruspoli, brother of the late Prince Enrico Ruspoli, scion of a most ancient and distinguished Roman house; at his estate near Genzano, attacked and shot through the heart by a thief. Died. Senator Bert M. Fernald, 68; at West Poland, Me., of heart disease. Died. Robert Stanley Weir, 69; in Memphremagog, Quebec. Died. Margaret Charlotte Smith Howard, 72, Baroness...