Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thousands of questions by hundreds of reporters" (his own phrase) followed the President's son wherever he went. They kept asking about Florence Trumbull and an engagement. . . . The S. S. Lapland docked in Manhattan but John did not go to meet it. His absence from the pier won $1.50 in bets for Miss Trumbull. Debarking, she said, she and John had "our own understanding." They would not be married before Christmas-a White House wedding would be "thrilling"-"but there isn't much chance of that...
...Sons of public men nowadays are seldom permitted to participate in their parent's official experiences. The usual feeling is that they should be shielded from fame rather than educated by means of it. A century ago the attitude was different. For example, 16-year-old James Gallatin, son of famed Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin, was taken to Europe as private secretary on the father's diplomatic mission which resulted in the Treaty of Ghent...
They did, at least, in last week's outstanding primary election, in Wisconsin. There, the so-called Progressive Republicans, led by boyish Senator Robert Marion ("Young Bob") La Follette, amiable son of a fiery father, won all the important nominations-including the Youngest Senator's renomination-except for the Governorship. That was won by Walter Jodok Kohler, affluent maker of plumbing fixtures, builder of a "model" village (Kohler, Wis.), father of grown sons, flyer of a speedy airplane, regent of the State University, adherent of Nominee Hoover. The La Follette candidate, U. S. Representative Joseph D. Beck...
...like a game of college football," and, "When I play tennis and lose, I make it a point to get to the net first to congratulate my opponent." She is so charming that James A. O'Gorman Jr., the smooth, young, curly-haired, Princeton-educated son-of-the-system whom she defeated for the Council, took her to lunch the day after she beat him. Debating against Mr. Phelps last week she cried: "I am not running on my looks, my age, possessions or sex. I ask no chivalry...
...force of the whizz-smash by a cool, adroit skid-swerve. When the man at the wheel turned around with blanched face to explain, he received from Marshal Pétain a little nod and a typical, paternal phrase of encouragement, "Bien fait, mon fils." ("Well done, my son...