Word: scions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Cornell is making a bad precedent in importing a mummy. Most colleges get them easier. They are usually harvested after dark and are not always as well preserved as the Cornell scion of the Pharaohs. The students use their scalpels upon them at five dollars a head. Some of the mummies sit in professor's chairs and are nominally alive. These have enough stale jokes in stock to make the average collegian atone for the fun he gets out of it. [Syracuse Standard...
Bonfanti, who was black-haired, voluptuously pretty, and had eyes that almost spoke, fell in love, just when her success was greatest, with the petted scion of an aristocratic family - a young man with plenty of money and a social position that might well be envied. But he gave up all this for love of the Italian girl, and, despite the entreaties of his family and the certainty of social ostracism, married her, and took her from the stage...