Word: scions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sitting at a telephone, Prince Konoye quickly assembled what is still called "The Telephone Cabinet" and rates as one of the broadest assemblages of minds which ever comprised a Japanese Government. As was appropriate for a scion of one of the Godly Families, the Premier-Prince sought to unify the Empire, end party strife. "If I can make old enemies bury the hatchet and become friends," he said, "If I can weld the whole nation into one peaceful family with the Emperor as the father of the household, I shall be content...
...sailplane pilots it represents the most fascinating pinnacle of their sport. To most spectators it is as though an aquaplanist were to get bored with skimming the waves on his aquaplane and take a ride on the back of a healthy shark. That Pilot du Pont, 27-year-old scion of the Wilmington family, has plenty of nerve he showed three years ago when, finding good conditions aloft, he set out for New York City without parachute or compass, set the U. S. distance record of 155 miles...
Married, Margaret Winifred ("Peggy") Dorrance, youngest daughter of the late Founder John Thompson Dorrance of Campbell Soup Co., who left her a monthly income of $10,000; and George W. Strawbridge, Philadelphia department-store scion; at Radnor...
Married. Mrs. Nancy Traylor Swift, 23, daughter of the late Chicago Banker Melvin Alvah Traylor, divorced last June from Nathan Butler Swift, meat-packing scion; and Marcy T. Weeks, 25, onetime tintype concessionaire at the Century of Progress Mexican Village; at Chicago's City Hall. For a witness they chose Bartender Dino Sbragio "because we hoped to avoid publicity .... The marriage itself was a very mechanical affair...
...future George V when he was a cadet "The Sprat." Edward VIII as a cadet was "The Sardine." The more serious, studious nature of George VI made him, as a cadet, "Dr. Johnson" and later "Mr. Johnson." It was soon evident that the present King was the only scion of the Royal Family ever to show a definite mechanical bent. Ship mechanisms became his major interest. Even today His Majesty is fond of the exceedingly intricate model railways-not "toys" but "scale models" costing in some cases up to $20,000 for a complete system...