Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this frail old lady is the widow of Alphonse Daudet. Who does not know his works? Who has not read at least one of his Letters from My Mill? It was as though the great, the universally-beloved Alphonse Daudet, had risen from the grave to defend his son in the person of his widow whose very existence had been forgotten. She wrote to Premier Poincaré: "Not long ago I was re-reading your letter which, in terms full of emotion and affection, you addressed to me after the death of my husband, and it seems incredible that...
...view of your son's attacks, directed against the courts and his defiance of the Government, the Cabinet decided that the law must be applied. This decision was painful to my colleagues as well as to myself and they have taken every measure to make sure that your son be accorded every consideration possible...
...small passenger sat with tight shut eyes as Major di Bernardi gave his ship the "gun," sent it roaring down the field, pulled back his joy stick, took off in a flashing swoop. Then, amid the calm speed of upper air strata, the eyes of passenger Vittorio Mussolini, 11, son of II Duce, opened. Regaining his composure he, later, peeped and peered over the edge of his cockpit, at Italia, far below...
...playwrights have reveled in the possibilities of Jeff's suddenly out-mutting Mutt. Not the least amusing of such fancies is this film in which Finch, the browbeaten, stumbles into an experiment in hypnotism and emerges Mr. Finch, brow-beater. Whereas his wife used to nag him, his son jeer at him, his boss sit on him, he now throws china at the picture of his wife's first husband, thrashes his son, bullies his boss, roars like a lion, and kicks the bleating lambs of whom he was once the gentlest...
...Priest Ingersoll talked intimately of Hell Fire," but his son talked intimately of God.* Such was his son's intimacy that he scoffed at his Creator on all possible occasions, scoffed also at other creations of his Creator. Remembered now mainly for a tag about one born a minute which has been tied to his name, he was once notorious for his irreligion, notable for his oratory, famed for his political victories, defamed for drunken outbursts of atheism. Son of a Congregational minister, the future spellbinder was taken from Dresden, N.Y., to Wisconsin at 10, in 1843. The Illinois...