Word: son
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...labeled "Buffoon in the Post of Premier," Premier Cajander, head of the Government of a "friendly" State, became a "clown, crowing rooster, squirming grass-snake, marionette; small beast of prey without sharp teeth and strength but having a cunning lust." The 60-year-old Premier, a schoolteacher's son, a forestry expert and middle-of-the-road Progressive in politics, was accused of "standing on his head, talking upside down, smearing crocodile tears over his dirty face." If Premier Cajander did not watch out, Pravda hinted, he would find himself in the company of onetime President Ignacy Moscicki...
...last week they finally changed their minds, paid both sides off. Terms: 1) Dr. Meyer was marched upstairs to the post of "medical superintendent of all county institutions"; 2) Cook County was promised reinstatement on the A.M.A.'s list sometime around Jan. 1; 3) Surgeon Charles Marshall Davison, son of a former Cook County Hospital surgical chief, warm friend of Dr. Meyer and of A.M.A. propriety as well, was appointed new Cook County director; 4) five medical aides-de-camp were assigned to Dr. Davison. General McCloskey will continue to run only the mechanical departments of the hospital...
That done, dark, horsy Melville President Ward Melville, son of the late Founder Frank (who fathered the idea of selling cheap, standard shoes at a fixed price), upped the price of his Thom McAn men's shoes 15? to $3.30 a pair. He intimated he was doing so for the good of the industry...
...start. Last week, in a paneled room off Independence Square, the directors of Curtis sat down before President Fuller to consider the Plan again. All, including brisk, slender Mary Curtis Bok and her ruddy-cheeked son, Gary Bok, agreed they wanted no Plan that might precipitate a stockholders' scrap. Curtis bankers sat down to figure out another Plan, were rumored to be planning sacrifices for the common holders to make up for the wounds that the preferred is bound to have to take...
...change, instead of doing one of those great impersonations (Pasteur, Zola, Juarez) in which he is aided by overmetic-ulous makeup and fussy mimicry. The doctor spends most of his spare time trying to keep his strict, pious, headachy wife (Flora Robson) from nagging their high-strung son into a nerve clinic. When the wife agrees to employ an Austrian dancer-patient of the doctor's (Jane Bryan, with a phony Viennese accent) as the boy's companion, all their troubles seem about over...