Word: son
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King-Emperor on three continents (China, Egypt, France), enlarged Britain's war chest by a personal gift of $20,000, and a State gift of $30,000, and offered six battalions of native infantry and camel corps. Still doing his bit, His Highness took his sword and son to the Viceroy personally, regretted that owing to his age he would have to be content with sacrificing his heir and not himself. Her Highness the Maharanee also caught the loyalty fever, gave Britain $4,000 from her pocket money...
Terrible Tommy. A hero role is nothing new to Thomas Dudley Harmon. Son of a Gary, Ind. real-estate man, he entered Michigan two years ago with the reputation of being the ablest allround high-school athlete in the U. S. At Gary's Horace Mann High, he twice was named All-State quarterback, was the country's leading interscholastic football scorer (150 points) in 1936, was captain of the basketball team, pitched three no-hit, no-run games one spring, was State champion at the 100-yd. dash (9.9 sec.) and still holds the Indiana record...
...Knoxville's Shields-Watkins Stadium. In the Army, Major Neyland learned that it is wise to keep the enemy guessing as long as possible. Last week he showed that it works as well on a football field. Most scouted player on his team is George ("Bad News") Cafego, son of a Hungarian coal miner-a rugged, jimber-jawed quarterback who has the reputation of being able to do everything but blow the referee's whistle...
...neither has enough oil for its distribution system. In a warring world they will doubtless find buyers for their Colombian oil, but may bring it to the U. S. to be refined. Last week old Virgilio Barco was many years in his grave, but his son Jorge (pronounced Horkhay) Barco, in Cúcuta, had himself a few drinks as the royalties began to accumulate...
...they had a dignified, unobstreperous standing in human existence. With a constant and expert attentiveness to exactitudes of speech, gesture, action, he writes of violence (a negress cutting a white man's throat), horror (a father incapable of restraining his vomit over the 19-day corpse of his son), brutality (a man's foot pinning a fighting woman to the earth by her pregnant belly), without any slackening into the merely melodramatic. He achieves all this in a dulled, plainfeatured, transparent prose. Lightwood has the unimpeachable honesty, goodness, flatness, of a mouthful of cold, excellent corn bread...