Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Parisian species. Still, if you do need something with which to fill space, I prefer either one of the coons as a subject to the uninteresting, distorted views of the eminent Baltimore Sun reporter* on our worthy Chief Executive [TIME, June 20]. . . . C. V. LEMEN Wichita Falls, Tex. Son Tries...
Inclosed $8 to continue my subscription two years. TIME is indispensable to me, a clergyman. Each week my son ( 17 ) tries to get it first. I usually read RELIGION, SCIENCE, MISCELLANY, then begin at the front cover and go through. I prefer to do so at one sitting. It is exhilarating, giving me the sense of having seen the living, pulsating processes of history in the making...
...Drew, 73, called last week by his nephew John Barrymore "The world's greatest actor" at San Francisco, Calif.; of rheumatic fever. As death approached, Mr. Drew said: "This is but another act and I am playing my part." In November, 1853, in the Arch Street Theatre, Philadelphia, a son was born to one John Drew, an Irish character comedian, and his extremely versatile actress-wife Louisa Lane Drew. The child, christened John, had a sister, Georgie.* Both grew up in the repertory atmosphere of the old Arch Street Theatre, subsequently managed by their mother...
...knows about the inarticulate necessities of unimportant people. Like the Russians whom Mr. Bennett so admires, she can articulate such matters with appropriate simplicity. "Her Own Room," in this volume of short turns, is simply the story of an old woman who lived in a flat with her son and his dependents. His homely daughter married. The old woman thought she might no longer be relegated to the davenport in the dining-room, but did not complain when this breathtaking likelihood collapsed...
...When Mr. Jones was reported as having ticked off a practice round in 68, Atlanta's mind was easier on this score. The other matter was the sale of the Atlanta Constitution, premier of Southern dailies. The ownership was announced as having passed from the Clark Howells, father & son, of Atlanta, to Colonel Luke Lea* and Rogers Caldwell, two Nashville, Tenn., gentlemen who published there the Tennesseean and who lately reached out to Memphis, to acquire the potent Commercial Appeal and Evening Journal. Having the Constitution owned by outsiders did not appeal strongly to Atlantans, than whom no people...