Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bennett died in 1872 of a stroke of apoplexy?a mocking old man, who had more enemies than friends. He gave his son complete ownership of the Herald...
...Son. Almost as soon as he was able to articulate, young Bennett knew that he would always be rich and that he would some day run the Herald. Tutors, France, champagne and the freedom of the Herald office furnished his education. New York's fastest society embraced him, because, unlike his father, he was a sporting blood. Delmonico's for luncheon, the Union Club* for late afternoon, anywhere for the evening?went young Bennett...
Caprice. "Life is so much easier," says the dyspeptic but incorrigibly playful Albert Von Echardt, "when you have a great many ties to choose from." He communicated this illuminating morsel of information to his bastard son, poetic and bumptious youth of 16, whom he was meeting for the first time. Albert had in fact been unaware of his child's existence until its mother, a somewhat charming though intensely idealistic creature, whom he had once betrayed and since forgotten, visited him. The purpose of her visit was to ask that Robert be permitted to live with his father...
...illegitimate children, Patrick and Deirdre, were also killed in a motor car accident. Deirdre was the daughter of Gordon Craig, Ellen Terry's son; Patrick the son, supposedly, of Paris Singer of Singer Sewing Machines...
...Spouse of James Simpson Jr.. son of James Simpson, potent president of Marshall Field...