Word: scions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
Divorced. Paul du Bonnet, distiller, sportsman, scion of the du Bonnets whose aperitif advertisements plaster every other billboard in France; by the onetime Christine Coty, daughter of the internationally famed perfumer, in Paris. He, it is rumored, will soon marry the notorious Mrs. Nash, famed as "the best dressed woman in the world...
...three weeks every scandal-nosing news cub has leered as he mouthed that name. Mr. Conkling is a roving gas engineer who plays the violin. Mrs. Sidney Erskine Brewster, petite and 26, did not guard the letters he wrote her with discretion. Mr. Brewster, 29, was an aviator, Manhattan scion, grew not to perceive the jest, killed his wife as she was dressing for dinner clad only in her chemise, killed himself. What editor or printer's devil in the U. S. does not know that? But what editor asked: "Who is Roscoe Platt Conkling? A descendant of 19th...
Married. Teresa Higginson, 25, hard-riding huntress; to Count Giangiulio Rucellai, 22, student at the University of Rome and resident of Florence, Italy; from the Higginson mansion in Lenox, Mass., where her mother and father have lived since her father George, scion of Boston Higginsons, retired from a lucrative promotion business in Chicago...