Word: scions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Career: Scion of a family of North Carolina dirt farmers who after the Civil War crossed the mountains to western Kentucky, he picked up a public school education between hours of field work, went to Marvin College at Clinton. Ambitious, he studied law at Emory in Georgia, and later at the University of Virginia. Admitted to the Kentucky bar in 1901, he was taken into the Paducah law office of Judge W. S. Bishop, prototype of Irvin Cobb's ''Judge Priest." In 1905, after a muleback campaign, he was elected county prosecutor. Four years later he successfully...
Young Hero Joachim Burthe, scion of an upper-crust family poverty-stricken in Republican Germany, yearns to do something to save his suffering post-War world. Member of a revolutionary society, he connives at plots to assassinate the Minister to whom Germany's great depression is attributed. When the plots fail Joachim determines to commit the murder himself...
...Hobart Henley can thus change the subject whenever one set of characters begins to get dull, as in Vicki Baum's kaleidoscopic Grand Hotel. Mae Clarke is a square-shooting chorus girl who talks like a Girl Scout. She pities a young patron (Lew Ayres) who is the scion of a famed murder case and drinks to forget. Young love burgeons while gyp and doublecross are rampant all around, practiced by the proprietor (Boris Kar-loff), his wife (Dorothy Revier), her lover, the guests and Lew Ayres's mother (Hedda Hopper). Besides the burgeoning juveniles, only an honest...
Senator John Sanford Cohen is a scion of a Jewish family resident in the South since before the Revolution. His father Philip Lawrence Cohen, left The Citadel at Charleston, S. C. to fight for the Confederacy, later married Ellen Wright ot Augusta, Ga. Senator Cohen married Julia Lowry Clarke, daughter of well-to-do Atlanta Christians. He attends Atlanta's North Avenue Presbyterian attends Church...
Marriage Revealed. Elsbeth ("Libby") Holman, 26, "torch-song" singer (Little Shows, Three's a Crowd); and Smith Reynolds, 20, tobacco scion of Winston-Salem, N. C. His first marriage was in 1929 to Anne L. Cannon of Concord, N. C. at 2 a. m. in York, S. C. with the bride's father (towel tycoon) and a policeman attending. When he becomes 28, Bridegroom Reynolds will receive the $20,000,000 estate of his father, the late Richard Joshua Reynolds...