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Word: scions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blood and brains which were infused into the Finance Ministry, last week, are those of Senator Antonio Mosconi, aged three score and two, and scion of a noble line whose ancestors began to flourish two centuries before the discovery of America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Roughshod Rotation | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...apartment, at the suggestion of a Negro maid who knows her own Negro maid. Jewels are stolen from the apartment. The owners unexpectedly return from Europe. The virgin is taken to jail. Things look bad, but they are set to rights and the virgin gets a husband in the scion of the Park Avenue owners. Said Carl Helm, critic of the New York Sun: "Of course, we may expect things like this during the hot spell, along with the hives and sunburn, the difference being that you can do something about hives and sunburn." Be that as it may, Miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jul. 16, 1928 | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

Married. Lydig Hoyt, Manhattan scion, onetime (1914-24) husband of Actress Julia Hoyt; to Helen Hoadley Willis of Manhattan; in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 9, 1928 | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...outdone by her politically active sister, Manhattan's Langhorne came last week to Houston. No scion of a Virginian First Family, no Maryland Ritchie or Bruce, held her allegiance; she marched in the parade of the Brown Derby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Brown Turbans | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

Engaged. Lucie Bedford, daughter of Frederick T. Bedford,* of Manhattan, yachtsman-president of Penick & Ford (Brer Rabbit molasses and syrup), granddaughter of Standard Oilman E. T. Bedford; to Briggs S. Cunningham, Cincinnati scion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 25, 1928 | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

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