Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boys." Repeatedly last week George V asked about the progress of the two sons who were dashing Londonward. Edward of Wales reached London Tuesday night, after having made the 6,450 miles from the African jungles in nine days, twelve hours. Soon after his eldest son reached his bedside, the King was reported in a bulletin as "slightly better." For the final stretch of rails, from Brindisi, Italy, to Boulogne, France, the Italian Government supplied a special train and officials cooperated to the end that it should cross Europe at an average speed of 35 miles an hour. Though impressive...
...third son of George V, the Duke of Gloucester, was in South Africa when recalled. Since his speedy return was not vital he took an ordinary "mail steamer," the Balmoral Castle, from Cape Town, was expected to reach London slightly before Christmas...
Married. Charles Coudert Nast, son of smart Publisher Condé Nast (Vanity Fair, Vogue, House & Garden); to Charlotte Babcock Brown, Manhattan scioness; in Manhattan...
Engaged. Ralph Pulitzer Jr., Manhattan newsman, son of President Ralph Pulitzer of the New York World; to Bessie Catherine Aspinwall of Pasadena, Calif., great granddaughter of the late Capitalist Moses Taylor...
Married. Sigourney Thayer of Manhattan, spasmodic theatrical producer, Wartime aviator, Atlantic Monthly poet, socially prominent jokesmith, son of Rev. William Greenough Thayer, headmaster of St. Mark's School, Southboro, Mass.; to Mrs. Emily Davies Vanderbilt of Manhattan, who last June, in six minutes, divorced William Henry Vanderbilt, son of the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt who perished on the Lusitania; in Manhattan. In 1921 Mr. Thayer was in Paris. It is related that he, poor, got to Europe by traveling steerage with a silk hat and no ticket...