Word: sons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Tennyson, through his son Hallam, has replied to the temperance society which recently forwarded him a resolution expressing regret at the "drink" passages in his new song. "My father begs to thank the committee," the son writes, "for their resolution. No one honors more highly the good work done by them than my father. I must, however, ask you to remember that the 'common cup' has in all ages been employed as a sacred symbol of unity, and that my father has only used the word 'drink' in reference to this symbol. I much regret that it should have been...
Henry Mosler, of Cincinnati, sends to the salon a picture of the notarial agreements between two families of Brittany peasants on the betrothal of a son and daughter...
Dagnan Bouveret, the artist who won his spurs at the salon of 1880 with "The Accident," will send this year a large picture of the blessing of an eldest son, a ceremony among religious families of Franche Comte, of which Province the painter is a native...
...late Lord Beaconsfield's residence at Hughenden is now occupied by an Australian millionaire named Wilson, whose eldest son is at Eton School. It so happened that Garelon Wilson was among the Eton boys who interfered with the man MacLean when he attempted a few weeks ago to shoot the Queen at Windsor station, and the further interesting fact is made public that he punched the miscreant with his umbrella...
Strelnikoff's murderer is the son of Collegiate Councillor Schelvakoff...