Word: scions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...private chambers of a New York Supreme Court justice in Manhattan one day last month a thin, nervous little girl of 10 sat swinging her spindly legs from a fat leather swivel chair. She was Gloria Vanderbilt, scion of one of the great socialite families of the U.S. Gently questioning her in clipped accents was a judge whose big body filled his ample chair and whose funny little goatee waggled up and down as he talked. An oldtime Tammany politician from the East Side, Justice John Francis Carew had hitherto known Vanderbilts, Whitneys, Astors, Goulds only as so many shadowy...
Divorced. Marshall Field III, Chicago department store scion; by Audrey James Coats Field, goddaughter of King Edward VII; in Reno. Grounds: extreme mental cruelty...
...still does, despite what the East did to him. In the Malay States malaria deafened one ear and nearly killed him. He came home to write a book about tiger hunting, Sport and Travel in the Far East, passionately resolved not to go into Boston banking. For a scion of the aloof Grews the only way to live in the places with magic names was to enter the Foreign Service. "When I flunked my first examination," Joe Grew has said, "I nearly committed suicide...
...early summer James P. ("Jimmy") Donahue, fabulously rich & prankish young Woolworth scion, thought of a good joke he could play on his cousin, fabulously rich & serious Princess Barbara Hutton Mdivani. His friend Marilyn Miller got Chorusman O'Brien to let him take a part in As Thousands Cheer one night. At the proper moment, when Marilyn Miller was impersonating Barbara Hutton in a skit, ''Jimmy" Donahue minced onstage in a princely uniform, fawned over the lady's hand. No one in the audience noticed the substitution, but it was the last straw for the managers...
Born in London (1860). eldest of five brothers, scion of a family that had been in the piano manufacturing business for a century, Frederick William Rolfe was a precocious but unstable youth. Against his family's wishes, he left school at 15, idled for a while, went to Oxford as an unattached student, became a schoolmaster. He lost his first position when he turned Roman Catholic. Thereafter he had but little contact with home. Followed brief periods of teaching and tutoring. Rolfe wanted to be a Catholic priest; that desire followed him through life. When he was 27 he studied...