Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...virtue of some 600,000 votes. Though many a Republican cast his vote in the Democratic primary for strategic purposes, Candidate Hoover's total was larger than the combined totals of competing Republicans in California's last two presidential primaries. That Candidate Hoover is the Favorite Son of California did not explain it, because California's Hiram Johnson used to run for president and California's votes for Johnson never approached this year's Hoover total. Hooverites called it a great demonstration of the Beaver man's popular appeal...
Rachele Guidi Mussolini once served as a lusty taproom wench at the rustic inn of good Papa Allesandro Mussolini, sire of Benito. Wise Papa Allesandro warned the wench against his son. "Do not let yourself think of that young man," he is said to have said, "It would be better to throw yourself under a train. Married to him you will have neither happiness nor peace...
Precisely when and how Rachele Guidi and Benito Mussolini were married is still a topic for active speculation. A delayed civil marriage appears to have been followed by a still further delayed religious ceremony. But the union was fruitful from the first. Daughter Edda Mussolini is now 17, son Vittorio, 11, son Bruno 10, and Babe Romano Mussolini is aged six months...
...vulgarly called "healing." Now it happens that from the haemophilic House of Hesse-Darmstadt have sprung the last of the Russian Tsarinas, Alexandra, and the present Queen Victoria Eugénie of Spain. To each of these exalted mothers came the bitter pang of recognizing in her first born son a haemophile...
This last generality, fond and frequent bon mot at parting of many parents; has often served to bring home their son earlier than they ever dreamed, Recognition of one truth is looking more and more at Harvard: that no single outside activity, athletics included, will so surely build a good citizen as conscientious application to college study. In the days when this idea bore the brand of propaganda it was quite properly abhorred, but recently it has achieved a renascence that seems unthreatened by even the ignorance of the familiar playboy. Mr. Slocum is carried on the wings of Pegasus...