Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Queen Marie broke down completely, and sobbed aloud, swooned. She recovered at last, sufficiently to lay upon the grave a wreath of lilies, which she had picked herself, and a large pillow of white roses sent from Paris by Prince Carol. Near her there stood during the ceremony her son-in-law, King Alexander of Jugoslavia, her brother-in-law, Prince Hohenzollern-Sigmarigen, and the deposed King George II of Greece. Airplanes dropped flowers, and the earth trembled slightly at a long farewell salute of 101 guns...
...justifiable exaggeration. Michael is, as was Ferdinand, the son of a prince only. ?As King of Rumania, Michael I will receive the Crown Jewels ($35,000,000), and a civil list of $500,000 per annum, plus other income of $2,000,000 per annum...
...know that Jesse E. James, a Los Angeles attorney, is the son of the late notorious Jesse James (1847-82). Lawyer James has said: "Jesse James with his brother Frank and a group of other Confederate soldiers, refused to admit defeat when the war was over, and carried on a guerrilla warfare until they were pronounced outlaws by an edict of the Government and rewards were set upon their heads. With all that has been written about father no one has ever, to my knowledge, accused him of cowardice or of breaking his word...
Among those falling by the wayside in last week's Western Amateur were: Frank Dolp, 1926 champion; Keefe Carter, 1925 champion; Chick Evans, eight times champion; Chuck Hunter, winner of the qualifying medal; John Ames, undergraduate son of Princeton's sinuous football player Knowlton ("Snake") Ames...
...Poet. Born in Pittsburgh, 40 years ago, he was schooled in Europe until 15. His parents moved to California where he studied medicine at various universities but never with the deep interest he had in poetry. His early work, Californians, is of a surprisingly flat, "native son" variety...