Word: scions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Toad Disney is back where he belongs-in the world of inspired fauna and improbable flora. J. Thaddeus Toad, madcap scion of an ancient family of landed British amphibians and a passionate gadgeteer, comes near being one of his liveliest, most lovable creations. Narrated with crisp anonymity by Basil Rathbone, the film is packed with memorable moments: Toad chugging about on his rump in delirious imitation of a motorcar; his flight from jail through a dark blue night stitched red with running gunfire; the defeat of the thieving weasels in the epochal battle of Toad Hall. This lighthearted, fast-moving...
There the repentant Toad determines to lead a new life, exemplified by his loyal but stuffy middle class friends, Badger, Mole, and Rat. When he escapes from the Tower, however, he reverts to his behavior as headstrong scion of the aristocracy...
...Good Oar. The scion of a modest Gooderham inheritance was sent to a primary boarding school in Pomfret, Conn., then to Groton, which left another mark: he learned that he was of the elite, chosen and trained to serve, and to solve problems. With the notion of getting closer to the world, young Dean undertook a romantic, singlehanded journey into the Canadian north woods as cook and handyman with a surveying gang...
Wells & Chains. "I wouldn't," beefy bachelor Baldwin once said in explanation of his single state, "bring a child into a capitalist world, and I like children, too." As Governor of the West Indies' Leeward Islands (pop. 109,000), the pipe-smoking scion of the pipe-smoking symbol of the Conservative Party seemed determined to erase all trace of capitalism from his Caribbean domain...
Last week the Greek government, alarmed at the effect of this propaganda on troop morale, finally decided to crack down on those who provided ammunition for the rebel loudspeakers. To give bite to its bark, a special court-martial in Athens charged handsome Michael Chryssicopoulos (36), scion of one of Greece's wealthiest families, with draft dodging...