Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after having been "in trade" (in business). Modest yet inflexible, he last week retired as a commoner entitled to a pension of £4,000 ($19,440) a year, having risen from the nonentity of a poor cotton spinner. His successor is Speaker the Rt. Hon. Edward Algernon Fitzroy, son of Baron Southampton, one-time Page of Honor to Queen Victoria, but now called "Mr. Speaker" and ranking as "First Commoner of the Realm...
...other son-in-law of Mrs. Kate ("Mother") Merrick is the Earl of Kinnoull. He, shameless, did not blush...
...grandson with the statement that my pet name for him is 'Madcap Mihai' or even 'Mad Mihai'! I have never called my grandson by any such names." Observers recalled that the "sinister efforts" of partisans of the abdicated Crown Prince Carol to discredit his son, King Mihai, achieved such success, last year, that several worried Rumanian aristocrats hurried for authentic information to one of the few men who was generally trusted and esteemed in intriguing, scandalmongering Bucharest-a man from Emporia, Kan., William Smith Culbertson, then Minister to Rumania, now Ambassador to Chile. The Rumanians knew...
...John A. Roberts of Yale in the finals. Put out in an early round, Watts Gunn of Georgia Tech., famed friend of Bobby Jones, said: "I've got to quit this game. I'm going to get a job." Three curly-headed players from Princeton and one Charles Grace (son of the President of the Bethlehem Steel Corp.) won the team championship...
Married. Woodbridge Bingham, son of U. S. Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut, descendent of three colonial Governors; and Ursula Wolcott Griswold, of Manhattan; in Old Lyme, Conn...