Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ohio held a Democratic primary and instructed its 48 delegates for Favorite Son Pomerene. But voters in three-fourths of the districts expressed preferences as follows: Smith, 32,694; Pomerene, 9,588; Donahey, 5,271; Reed, 432; Walsh, 151; McAdoo, 37. Favorite Son Pomerene was reported as seeing no reason why his delegates should not vote for Candidate Smith on the first ballot...
...make some money, to get practice, to have fun, is the avowed purpose of Junior Englewood (New Jersey weekly), edited by Bruce C. Forbes, 12-year-old son of Bertie Charles...
Last week Son Bruce's sheet contained the following notice: "So many people wanted to advertise in this issue that we had to stop taking them, but we will try to make room in the next issue...
...commercial shrewdness of Son Forbes is evident in every column of Junior Englewood. To stimulate circulation he offers prizes of $1 and $2 for printable jokes and conundrums by youngsters, for essays by teachers. His biggest prize contest has the subject: "What I want...
...persuades her moonraking Johnny to earn occasional hangman's fees, and bring home the dead man's things, now a decent coat, now a stout pair of boots. Tortured by this necessity, Johnny broods over his ropes and ring, croons the ugly details to a fascinated small son, demonstrating with a grotesque rag doll on a miniature scaffold. In a drunken brawl at the inn Johnny champions a slattern, more unfortunate even than himself, befriends her, loves her, kills her jealous brute of a husband. She is convicted of the murder, and Johnny hangs her, dooming himself...