Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Son Cornelius Jr. is scarcely famed in Paris-having chosen California as his place to toil and go bankrupt publishing tabloid news organs. Therefore announcements that General Cornelius Vanderbilt had made available $2,257,000 to pay the California tabloid creditors (TIME, Dec. 31), were of relatively slight interest to such typical Paris tycoons as M. Henri Letellier, publisher of the world's third largest newspaper, Le Journal. It was M. Letellier who employed, as his confidential and executive secretary until recently, the cherubic Erskine Gwynne. But tout Paris took keen interest, last week, at reports that Nephew Gwynne...
...Both Son Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. and Nephew Erskine Gwynne have now repented their original sin of writing for the lurid, gumchewerish Hearst Sunday Magazine. It was son Cornelius Jr.'s indiscretions in this blatant field which for years estranged his parents. Simultaneously Nephew Gwynne was writing from Paris a series which Hearst editors published as: "The Memoirs of Mrs. Jean Nash, by The Best Dressed and Most Extravagant Woman in the World...
Prior to perpetrating such pap for gullibles, young Erskine Gwynne, son of the late famed international polo player Edward Gwynne, reamed high explosive shells in a French munition factory (1915-17), soldiered in the A. E. F. (1917-18), and worked his way around the world on cargo boats (1919-22). Returning to Paris he found a berth with exquisite yet potent Henri Letellier. Of this Croesus among Paris publishers it is said on intimate authority that he owns 1,260 suits of clothes, and everyone knows that he has eleven motor cars, favoring Voisins. Le, tellier has been Mayor...
Experienced Prince Pierre de Polignac temporized, seemed to yield. By all means let there be a commission! Affably His Highness named three each of the resigned National and Communal councilmen to compose the Commission. Also the smart son-in-law had a proclamation from Prince Louis to read-a paternal, gently reproving proclamation...
...124th lineal descendant of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu-0-Mikami, such appeals are regarded as a deadly sacrilege and sin. Nonetheless last week, when Emperor Hirohito rode out to open Parliament, a burly farmer from Saitama Province burst through the cordon of Imperial police and groveled sinfully before the Son of Heaven...