Word: scions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scion of "an interminable line" of not interminable Georgia preachers and physicians, Poet Dillon, since he entered the University of Chicago in 1923, has been a chronic prizewinner. At the University he won the John Billings Fisk Prize for the best poetry written by a student. Poetry, The Magazine of Verse, gave him its Young Poet's Prize, invited him to become associate editor. Boy in the Wind was the first selection of the Poetry Book Club, won the Chicago Foundation for Literature Prize. Among more personal prizes he counts the friendship of Edna St. Vincent Millay...
...Career: Scion of the soil, he studied at Livingstone Academy, taught school, attended Geneva...
Scores of tourists, attracted by angry voices, last week scurried into a Senate committee room, where they gaped in pop-eyed wonder. A guide showed them Senator Harry Bartow Hawes, 62-year-old St. Louis lawyer, scion of an old Southern family, who is the chief agitator for freeing the Filipinos. Last summer he traveled to Manila, stirred the islands' little brown men to wild excitement. Standing before him, tall, handsome, was Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley, 49-, onetime capitalist of Tulsa and fighting son of a poor immigrant Irishman. To counteract the Hawes agitation President Hoover sent...
Wayward (Paramount). The casual cinemaddict will be vaguely bothered by trying to remember whether he has either read the story or seen the picture before. Actually he has done both. There has been previous elaboration, sometimes dramatic, sometimes melodramatic, on the theme of the scion of two ancient, rich and grotesquely conservative lines (Richard Arlen) who weds a chorine, Daisy (Nancy Carroll), and takes her back to the ancestral mansion. Smooth sequence, good photography, competent acting, have not resuscitated this frail, old plot. The dowager mother (Pauline Frederick), psychopath! cally jealous of her son's affections, willfully twists Daisy...
Grant's Secretary of the Interior (1875-77). Chandler's dour effigy now stands in the Capitol's Statuary Hall. The Hales inherited a large slice of the Chandler fortune, made in dry goods in Detroit. Scion of two such potent and distinguished families, young "Freddie" Hale was carefully schooled (Lawrenceville, Groton. Harvard) and steered into the Law as a stepping stone to politics. His father's name and fame helped him to get elected to the Maine House of Representatives for one term (1904). In 1916 he was elected to the U. S. Senate where...