Word: scions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...learned of the boy's existence. Subsequently Enrile studied law at the University of the Philippines, where he mingled with the Filipino elite. His classmates included Vice President Laurel, whose father had been President during the Japanese occupation of World War II, and Cabinet Executive Secretary Joker Arroyo, the scion of a land-rich family. Enrile has been particularly stung by his exclusion from Aquino's inner circle, which includes Arroyo, one of his most bitter rivals...
...cutbacks, has increased and thus the increase in black-tie events," explains Waldorf Catering Director Lawrence Harvey. "In my set," says New York City Socialite Mrs. Thayer Gilpatric, "the tuxedo never went out." A century ago, however, the tuxedo almost got kicked out of Gilpatric's set. Griswold Lorillard -- scion, as social columnists would put it, of the tobacco Lorillards -- showed up in the rarefied regions of the country club at Tuxedo Park, N.Y., wearing a red waistcoat with his best bib and tucker. The incendiary vest was bad enough, but what really stirred up the swells was the inescapable...
Nathaniel Saltonstall, Class of 1659, is said to have refused to participate in the Salem witch trials. Sir Richard Saltonstall, the family scion, spoke out against slavery early in the 17th century. Another Saltonstall refused to obey orders and lost a fleet in the War of 1812. He was discharged from the U.S. Navy...
Most striking of all, for this Catholic family whose scion broke the religion bar in presidential politics, Schlossberg is Jewish. The son of a Manhattan textile manufacturer, he is liked by the bride's family not for his ability to garner votes or toss a football but because he is comfortable sitting in the background and learning what others have...
...knew what was meant--sort of. In fact, his politics are so ill formed, so much a product of simple adolescent rebellion, that he might have endorsed any radical cause. His alternately amused and annoyed companion is, it turns out, the author of the leaflets, an Oxbridge-educated scion of a prominent family who has joined the opposition. He admits that his people are ignorant, that his country does not feel like home. Even so, he felt honor bound to come back and fight...