Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republican's 16 reasons for a Hoover campaign in Indiana were references to 16 members of the Watson political crew who have been indicted for crookery in the past four years. But, unlike pompous Senator Willis, easy-going Senator Watson has no pretensions beyond those of a "favorite son." His game is simply to herd the Indiana delegates for delivery to his good friend Vice President Dawes or for barter with other big G. O. P. traders at the convention. Candidate Lowden did not file in Indiana, and therefore, since Lowden admirers realize that a vote for Lowden...
...away from home and signed on as cabin boy to a certain savage skipper. Today he controls the great Newcastle shipping firm of Runciman & Co., Ltd., and is proud to sit in the House of Commons. Prouder still is he of the fact that his son, also Walter, also sits in the House...
James A. Reed, of Missouri, is the old soldier of the Senate. He is a lawyer, too, but inheritance tacked onto his name all kinds of military designations, making him a Son of the American Revolution, and a Son of the Confederate Veterans. He himself stepped from the presidency of the St. Louis Police Board to a post as representative of the republic of Hawaii during the annexation proceedings in 1899. Later he became a major in the Military Intelligence Department, and went to Spain as assistant military attache...
...Corporation of Harvard University as recipients of the honor that was to have been given to "a prominent Harvard graduate" brings a flood of mingled feelings into the mind of the student. An award that goes to seven, where one had expected the bringing forth of a single mighty son, smacks at first of cavilling judgment...
When Anne India gave birth to a son conceived in the triumph of Cousin Tomlin's demise, her husband implored the doctor to let it die. For baby Rex had a little horn above his left ear. But Rex was not allowed to die. He was cherished and guided from squalling infancy to wobbly-kneed childhood, to brooding, weak-stomached youth; and from the path of his progress Anne cast aside all obstacles. "The world was made for well people to live in," she had cried when she heard of Tomlin's death. Now she said: "If meat...