Word: scions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seeking Divorce. Anne Ludlow Cannon Reynolds Smith, 23, daughter of Towel Tycoon Joseph F. Cannon, first wife of the late Zachary Smith Reynolds, tobacco scion; from Frank Brandon Smith Jr., Charlotte (N. C.) hardwareman; in Hot Springs, Ark., whither she was accompanied by vigilant Father Cannon...
Students. But great masters are only half the Conant formula for Harvard's future. He wants the best apprentices too. Under Abbott Lawrence Lowell, scion of a rich and ancient Boston family, it could be argued that Harvard had become a "rich man's college." James Conant was born in unfashionable Dorchester, Mass., son of a photo-engraver. He has made himself an intellectual aristocrat. Under him Harvard's favored sons will be, beyond argument, the rich in brains...
When Suzanne (Lilian Harvey) breaks a leg dancing, her rascally stage manager loses all interest in her welfare. A group of puppeteers take care of her and the scion (Gene Raymond) of the chief puppeteer falls in love with her. The rest of I Am Suzanne deals with Suzanne's uneasy feeling that Tony is really in love not with her but with a puppet portrait he has made of her. The mocking dances of his marionettes and her fiancé's dreamy affinity with them first confuse, then anger her. When her leg has mended enough...
...life & times of Edith Rockefeller McCormick are Chicago history. Most colorful of the Rockefeller children, her wedding to Harvester Scion Harold McCormick in 1895 was only surpassed in national interest by the marriage of Consuelo Vanderbilt to the Duke of Marlborough the same year. In Chicago she succeeded Mrs. Potter Palmer as social arbiter, gave vast and lavish parties, backed the Chicago opera for years before Insull. She used to buy dresses six at a time, all the same model. She thought nothing of spending $25,000 for roses to bower her ballroom. Suffering from a nervous disorder...
...Nazi is closer to psychic, intuitive Chancellor Adolf Hitler than tall, brooding Dr. Ernst Hanfstaengl whose eyebrows are two great black beetles. Often at night Ernst distracts Adolf, weary from cares of state, by playing soulfully on the piano. Ernst, scion of Munich's famed art-print publishing House of Hanfstaengl, is a Harvard man, once kept a smart Manhattan art shop. Because Hitler and Hanfstaengl are inseparable, constantly flying about the Fatherland together in the Chancellor's private plane, all Germany was flabbergasted last autumn when the Party's first super-film, Horst Wessel "with music...