Word: scionness
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...Washington Elm is not to die. A scion of that famous tree will be planted on the original site. This is Boston's gift to the city of Cambridge. The tree is now growing at Charlestown Heights where it was planted in 1905 from the Arnold Arboretum and presented to the Boston Park Department. During its years of growth, the tree has received the best of care and is a remarkably sturdy specimen. Washington's birthday has been set for the date of transplanting...
Married. Princess Isabella d'Or-leans, 22, daughter of the Due and Duchesse de Guise, niece of Prince Philippe, Due d'Orleans, Bourbon Orleanist pretender to the French throne, to the Comte Bruno d'Harcourt, 24, scion of an ancient Royalist family, at Versailles. Her aunt, former Queen Marie Amelie of Portugal, was present...
...scion of capitalism descended from the family seat to till a dusty field...
Ralph Wood, scion of a Staffordshire land-owning family in the 18th Century, was a friend of Josiah Wedgwood. But he and his son of the same name, as well as Aaron and Enoch, relatives, established a pottery school of distinct originality. Their glazed figurines, known to connoisseurs as the equals of Chinese Ming, have a sculpturesque strength of modeling and a variety of contrasting colors that have made them beloved of collectors. A collection of Ralph Wood pottery which has taken 16 years to assemble is being shown at the Partridge Gallery, London. Statuettes of Benjamin Franklin, Alderman Beckford...
Engaged. Baroness Marie von Friedlander-Fuld von Kuhlmann, one of the greatest pre-war German heiresses and divorced wife of the Foreign Minister (von Kuhlmann) who signed the treaty of Brest-Litovsk, to Erich Goldschmidt-Rothschild, scion of the only remaining German branch of the Rothschild family...