Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington. Candidate Willis was grimly glad, having arranged for Candidate Hoover to appear before the Senate Commerce Committee to be quizzed, by Candidate Willis in person, on flood control. Enroute to Washington, Candidate Hoover nailed as false a report that he would enter no primary against a Favorite Son, except in Ohio. The fact was that his handlers had just arranged a nationwide radio "hookup" for a speech he was going to make at an engineering dinner in Manhattan...
...still. Possibly he was awed by the nearby presence of his widowed "grandmama,'' famed Margot Asquith. Perhaps, on the other hand, he was now and then whisperingly reminded not to squirm by his mother. She is Mrs. Raymond Asquith, widow of the late statesman's eldest son, who was killed in action in 1916. Whether she whispered or "Margot" frowned, the eleven-year-old heir & Earl listened with exemplary gravity, last week, while Prime Minister Baldwin and onetime Prime Ministers Lloyd George & Ramsay MacDonald declaimed funereally from the floor of the House...
...Majesty Ibn Saud, warlike Sultan of Nejd and King of the Hejaz, came tidings last week of his flourishing son the Amir Faisal, 19-year-old Viceroy of the Hejaz. The tidings were conveyed 500 miles by motor caravan from the Red Sea town of Jidda in the Hejaz, to the Sultan's inland capital, Riyadh, in Nejd. There was it made known that the enlightened son & Viceroy had finally caused to be obliterated that notorious imposture, "The Tomb of Mother Eve," at Jidda...
Notables nicely cast were Archduke Leopold of Austria as the Prussian; Ferdinand Schumann-Heink, son of Singer Schumann-Heink, as a staff surgeon, and Miss Mann, conspicuous by the paucity of her history. Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, one of ten, she abandoned schooling for work at nine, sailed to South Africa, later married, and settled in Washington, D. C. She first put on costume as a pageant player, dressing as Martha Washington. At fifty she had her initial extra job; ten years later she was singled out as the ideal lead for Four Sons where the lined maternity...
Eloped. Gordon Godowsky, 22, son of famed Pianist-Composer Leopold Godowsky; brother of Cinemasiren Dagmar Godowsky; Harvard senior, now "suping" in The Trial of Mary Dugan (wherein a blonde Follies girl defends her name); with Miss Yvonne Hughes, blonde Follies girl. Result: disinheritance...