Word: scions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lineage of Uncle Sam, benign personification of the nation, was again raised last week. Was this lean Yankee character in beaver hat and striped trousers who reflects the emotions of 123,000,000 people, the bastard offspring of some japester's lively imagination or was he the scion of flesh-and-blood...
...Dave") Ingalls, 32-year-old Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air, bounced out of his Washington swivel chair, climbed into a high-speed naval plane, went streaking away to another great war which commanded his intense and invariably enthusiastic attention last week. In 1917 this same active, able scion of a rich Ohio family had left his freshman class at Yale to join the U. S. Naval Air Service. Attached to the British near Dunkerque on the Channel, he downed six German planes, won three prized medals for bravery. He came home...
Born. To Mme Paul Dubonnet (Jean Nash) and Paul Dubonnet (aperitif) distiller's scion, divorced husband of Christiane Coty, daughter of Publisher & Perfumer Francois Coty; a daughter (their first, her third child); in Cannes, France. She married successively John Stanley Kirwan of Manhattan, Capt. Winfield Sifton (by whom her eldest, now 18) son of the late Sir Clifford Sifton. British Army Capt. John Victor Nash, Egyptian Prince Mohammed Sabit...
...Jenny" in the story) was the daughter of a literary hacketeer, he ("David") the scion of a civil servant. Neither had money, both were excited about literature. Her mother disliked and distrusted David and his untrimmed locks, discouraged his steady advances toward her daughter. When Jenny's father died she took a job as governess, managed to see her lover occasionally. Since both disapproved of marriage they planned to live together secretly; but, strong on fancies, they were short on facts. "We were still very ignorant of sex, and only knew in a vague way through the reading of poetry...
William Hale Thompson was born in Boston May 14, 1869, scion of a wealthy and respectable family. In 1900 after playcowboying in Wyoming, he took a $50 bet in the Chicago Athletic Club from his friend George Jenney that he was not scared to go into politics, was elected Alderman from the Second Ward. On April 6, 1915 he was elected Mayor of Chicago, with the aid of notorious Fred ("Terrible Swede") Lundin, on a Wet-Dry, White-Black, German-British platform. "Freedom for Ireland" got him his re-election in 1919. His third election...