Word: scionness
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Count Michael Karolyi, living in London while his wife tours the U. S. to "make a little money," scion of one of Hungary's most ancient and famous families, the man who early in 1918 took the oath of allegiance to Emperor Karl and later, in the same year, proclaimed Hungary a republic with himself as first President, who, allegedly, "sold" the country to the Bolsheviki in 1919 and who is probably the most hated man in Hungary, once more entered the legal lists to recover his confiscated property...
...last week, trundled through three seasons and two games without lurching. Then along came Williams-in particular Left End Ide of Williams. The Big Red applecart took a lurch, a swerve, a jolt on the thank-you-ma'm, and lumbered off the road 7 to 14. Ide, scion of Troy, N. Y., collar-makers, scored both Williams' touchdowns, one by whisking up a fumble, one by fastening on a pass. Cornell, fast and brawny, fumbled five times; Williams, fast and brainy, worked smoothly...
...scion of wealth, its owner, certain cinemalicious adjectives, reserved for scions-idle, gilded, etc.- do not apply. To avoid being idle, he became, after graduating from Harvard, in turn, a railroad-lawyer's clerk, a reporter for The Sun (New York), a lieutenant in the U. S. Naval Reserve. He is a director of the N. Y. Central R. R., and has an office in the Grand Central Terminal, Manhattan, where he often may be found. Never gilded, he was once scorched when his yacht, the Vagrant caught fire at sea, but survived to win the N. Y. Yacht...
...Miguel de Unamuno was born nearly 60 years ago, and is a scion of an old Basque family. The Basques speak a language foreign to Spaniards; they are passionately fond of freedom and independence−as witness their history; in battle, whether of deeds or words, they are brave and tenacious...
Comte Félix Ernest de Ségalai, scion of an ancient Provencal family, was often to be seen in the vicinity of the French Ministries and the Chambre...