Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Newton, Mass., William M. Duncan, while standing in his living room suffered a fainting spell which caused him to fall upon the floor. His wife, when she entered the room and saw her prostrate husband, swooned in a corner. The elder son of William M. Duncan came into the room, saw his parents lolling in their coma, and crumpled up beside them. All three were inert upon the floor when the younger son of the Duncans sauntered in and the iad staggered to the telephone and whispered to a doctor. When the physician arrived, he found four Duncans stretched unconscious...
Born. To Arthur Train, 53, lawyer-author (His Children's Children, Tutt and Mr. Tutt), a son, John, in Manhattan, the first child of his second wife...
Professor Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter, archeologist, mystic, delights in huge canvases and brilliant colors. His gnarled and twisted monsters, weird dwarfs, beautiful fairy princesses march in gorgeous pageant across the walls of his exhibits. Four years ago Painter Roerich gathered together some scientifically-minded artist friends, his wife, his son George, (Harvard Orientalist) and set out on an expedition into Asia to get inspiration and information about tribal customs and religions. For three years he kept in touch with the home office, his Roerich Museum, in Manhattan. Then for a year all was silence. Last week, while friends feared...
...money. Pyle gave the runners $1.50 a day for food, put cots for them in empty stores. In Chicago there was no cash on hand. When it seemed sure that everything was over, one F. F. Gunn, Chicago sportsman, paid off the debts, took charge of the race. His son Harry was in the race and Gunn is said to have bet $75,000 that Harry would finish. He hired a sleeping bus and two trainers for Harry and followed the boy in his Pierce Arrow roadster. To Pyle was left the job of paying the prize-money. "Each...
...picture in a window which aroused his righteous rage. The picture was the celebrated Andromache at the Siege of Troy, by Antoine Georges Marie Rochegross. Grotesque and terrible, it depicts Hector's wife at the moment when she is being dragged away from Troy for the pleasure of Neoptolemus, son of Achilles; her little son, Axtynax, is being yanked away from his mother by a brutal soldiery. The nude body of a nymph lies prostrate in the foreground. When his eyes were assailed by this dreadful representation, John S. Sumner whistled with dismay and wrote as follows to Nathan Levy...