Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Blease v. Diplomats. Last week when Senator Coleman Livingston Blease of South Carolina, Grand Patriarch of I. O. O. F. of S. C., Past Great Sachem of the Improved Order of Red Men, etc., etc., heard that 14-year-old Henry A. Howard, son of British Ambassador to the U. S. Sir Esme Howard, had injured a little girl in an automobile accident in Washington, D. C., he interrupted the business of the Senate with the following...
...world has laughed at the name of Beecham?first at Joseph the father, who made a fortune at pill-making, winning a baronetcy thereby, then at Thomas the son, who squandered it* in the name of music, and wheeled about to mock the entire British public for its lack of appreciation. Some three thousand wanted to laugh one night last week in Manhattan when Sir Thomas lifted his baton for his U. S. debut with the Philharmonic Orchestra. He had come on calmly enough, like a slick little middle-aged banker surveying his premises. Then he stepped...
...town to another, earned 180 rubles (then about $90?) in 50 concerts, and a reputation that amounted to less. Despairing, he turned his back on a concert career, went to Warsaw, found himself a handful of pupils and a wife who died a year later, leaving him a paralyzed son. He went to Vienna. Teaching tormented him. He turned pupil himself again, studied two years with Leschetizky, practiced eighteen hours a day. Success, fame, immortality loomed...
...first section is devoted principally to Talleyrand's life with the beguiling Mme de Flahaut, and-as if that were not enough-the discussion is carried on even unto the uttermost generation, and full details are given of the picturesque and irregular lives of Charles de Flahaut, the son of that union, and of the Duc de Morny, the son's son...
Thomas Mann the author of the "Buddenbrocks", "The Magic Mountain", and other novels published in English translation, is the most distinguished author of living German novelists. his son Klaus, who is only 20 years old, has also written short stories and plays, but of these only one, "Kinder novelie," translated as "The Fifth Child", is as yet known to English readers...