Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Said Son Forbes last week: "You see, I want to take my father's place some day. I read all his magazines and everything that he writes in the New York newspapers. And some day I think I'll be a real editor like...
...Coolidge figured in the laughs. His name was signed to a letter saying The Nation was a "darb"; his picture was substituted for Benjamin Franklin's in the masthead of the Saturday Evening Post, which was published "in association with the United States mint and N. W. Ayer & Son...
...Brother Charles made a gift of $5,000, not to Brother Horace's school, but to the Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati. The day after that, Taft School received a gift of $50,000, not from a gentile, but from Mortimer Leo Schiff, Jewish philanthropist, Manhattan banker, whose son John was a graduate of Taft School & Yale. Jews and gentiles were proud of each other...
Ethel Barrymore was alarmed and vexed when she learned that her 18-year-old son, spry Samuel Colt, was wanted by the police department of Manhattan. After an evening of gamboling, young Colt drove his auto through Fifth Avenue at 55 miles per hour. Hailed by a traffic officer, he was ordered to appear in court. When he neglected to do so, returning instead to Roxbury School, a warrant was issued for his immediate arrest. Doubtless thoroughly scared by this development, spry Samuel Colt surrendered himself to the court before the warrant had been served. A fine...
...Charles H. Clark, editor of the Textile World, has been zealous & learned. He solemnly told the cotton men at Pawtucket last week, that: "Thorp was born in 1784, presumably in Rehoboth, Mass., the son of Reuben and Hannah (Bucklin) Thorp. No records of the date and place of his birth have been located, but entries in the Bibles of his brothers, David and Comfort, agree that at the time of his death, Nov. 15, 1848, he was sixty-four years old. For the assumption that he was born in Rehoboth there is the fact that his father and mother were...