Word: scions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Virginia Willys, debutante daughter of John North Willys (Willys-Overland); to Luis Marcelino de Aguirre, Argentine scion...
With perfect imperturbability Pearl assured him of the worst. Jack, scion of the aristocratic family Frith-Walter, was standing for Parliament-as Labor candidate. Alan was quite as shocked as Pearl. But she wasn't leaving Jack? Certainly. Divorce? Certainly. Vanished Alan's benignity, Wordsworth's philosophy...
...peasant was Merry del Val, but scion of an ancient Spanish family, grandee by birth and inclination, rich, sophisticated. He was the son of Don Rafael Marquis Merry del Val, secretary to the Spanish ambassador at London. His mother, the granddaughter of Brodie McGee Willcocks, onetime M. P., had mingled a strain of English blood with Merry del Val's paternal Spanish. Born in London, Merry del Val had been educated at Baylis House. He completed his theological studies in Rome and was ordained priest...
...Bellhaven Collie Kennels, had crated and shipped to Mrs. Hoover, on the day before election, a young celebrity named, with the fanciness peculiar to kennels and stables, "Bellhaven Behoover." A "staff correspondent" of the arch-Republican New York Herald Trib une described Bellhaven Behoover as an "eager-eyed scion of champion collie stock ... a seven-month-old sable and white collie, the sable a lustrous golden brown and the white like the fluffed ala baster of a snowdrift at dawn."* Son of Triple Champion Bellhaven Braveheart and Multiple Champion Bellhaven Blossom time, grandson of Bellhaven Starboat Strongheart ("greatest collie...
...self-sacrificial solemnity, Mr. Keith's heir falsely insists that the figures seen en route to furtive passions were those of himself and one of the suspected women's housemaids. This precipitates a semi-tragic interruption of the endearments which had hitherto been passing between the Keith scion and a nice young girl...