Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President came the strange dilemma of William Adkins, 80-year-old Washingtonian with two sons. The dilemma was that one of the sons, President Jesse Adkins of the Washington Bar Association, had been proposed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in which William S. Adkins, the other son, had long been a clerk. The law provides that no relative of a Federal judge shall be employed in that judge's court. Mr. Adkins Sr. asked that his able son should not be made a judge lest the other son lose his clerkship...
Aged 50, lawyer and judge, no Southern demagog, respected by his colleagues, no less obscure nationally than was Senator Harding in 1920, no more an "innovation" than any other "favorite son" candidate, Walter Franklin George of Georgia will help Southern Democrats mark time. Whether or not they profit by the experiment, he will profit by the experience...
...informed opinion . . . that Herbert Hoover among Republicans everywhere is the preference of the rank and file. It is and will be our purpose to expose the selfish character of certain favorite-son and other insincere movements calculated to defeat the will of the people...
...musical play, the action of "The Desert Song" is intricate. Pierre Birabeau, played by Robert Halliday, is known in North African social circles as the half-wit son of Governor-General Birabeau. But this is only an assumed role; among the Riffs, Pierre is really none other than "The Red Shadow", a renegade white man who leads the natives on nocturnal forays. His dual activities are not suspected and they give him a lot of good harmless fun until love arrives in the attractive form of Miss Ethel Louise Wright as Margot Bonvalet, a visiting Parisienne...
...fact that Nick Van Alstyne's son-in-law tries to ruin him after having been handed a profitable business by old Nick and that said son-in-law gets into difficulties with another lady furnishes the background for the plot of the play. The action and the humor of the play are centered around "Henrietta," of whom there turn out to be three. On the whole, though the play is not uproarious from start to finish. It is amusing and there is plenty of action and much laughter to be had, especially in the third...