Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peasant was Merry del Val, but scion of an ancient Spanish family, grandee by birth and inclination, rich, sophisticated. He was the son of Don Rafael Marquis Merry del Val, secretary to the Spanish ambassador at London. His mother, the granddaughter of Brodie McGee Willcocks, onetime M. P., had mingled a strain of English blood with Merry del Val's paternal Spanish. Born in London, Merry del Val had been educated at Baylis House. He completed his theological studies in Rome and was ordained priest...
Died. J. Louis Webb, 73, Manhattan connoisseur, art collector, huntsman, fisherman, uncle of famed Poloist J. Watson Webb, son of late Editor James Watson Webb (New York Courier & Enquirer, 1827-61), grandson of Brig. Gen. Samuel Blatchley Webb, of George Washington's Army; in Manhattan...
Married. Warren Redenock Straton, Manhattan Beaux Arts sculpture student, son of Rev. John Roach Straton; to one Ruth Stokes Cater of Douglaston, N. Y.; by Dr. Straton. Later, while driving to visit his son in Norfolk, Va., Dr. Straton was chased by motorcycle police, arrested for driving 50 miles an hour...
Died. Irving Berlin Jr., 24 days old, grandson of Telegraph Tycoon Clarence Hungerford Mackay, son of Songwriter Irving Berlin & Mrs. Ellin Mackay Berlin of Manhattan; of a heart attack; on Christmas morning, in Manhattan...
...head of the Ferguson family was Mom Ferguson, a dowdy, cynical scold. Impelled by her stupid and melancholy faultfinding, her two daughters and son rebelled by getting married. Before they did so, one of the daughters stole dresses in the store where she worked and the son made love to a rural chit over his prize-winning plans for a bridge...