Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although both twins continue damsels in the theatrical sense, Jennie has been married several times and Rosie once, last March, secretly, to Mortimer ("Morty") Davis Jr., Canadian tobacco tycoon's son...
...born in Naples, his father a commoner, his mother a baroness. Never rich, it was the fate of General Diaz to die possessed of almost nothing except a small house in Naples which was presented to him by popular subscription after the War. The house he left to his son, last week, bidding him not to sell it except in direst need. Such was the last request of one whom Italy created Duca della Victoria (Duke of Victory) and who chose for himself the motto: "Better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep...
...police agents threatened to take Trotsky [from his house] by force. . . . Trotsky refused to go. The police picked up his overcoat and began to force him into it. His wife tried to communicate with somebody by telephone and they dragged her roughly from the instrument. Trotsky's son attempted to defend his father and was subdued in a fist fight...
...their father rather than themselves as the proper object of a critical inspection. Having inspected, they,decide to adopt him, and he, bewildered but delighted, decides to keep his children. But one of them, the English youth, to the great disgust of Sir Basil, turns out to be the son of another father and immediately sets about marrying the opera singer's offspring. To Sir Basil's further chagrin, the U. S. illegitimate, whose coy and daring cajoleries have made her his "favorite little bastard," falls in love with his solicitor; when she has achieved her father...
Born. To Sergeant Alvin C. York of Tennessee, famed World War hero, a fourth son, Sam Houston York...