Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sinclair has obviously achieved fame. He has political enemies, a biographer, and an uncorrupted son. But has he a sense of humor...
...Upton Sinclair, whose book "Oil" was recently suppressed in Boston, came to Boston to be present at the defense hearing. He seems to have three arguments for his defense. The first is his twenty-five year old son who is to be offered as evidence that Mr. Sinclair Senior is not a corrupting influence to all young minds. The second argument purports to be from a forthcoming biography of Mr. Sinclair which alludes to him as a Puritan. The third is that most of the quoted bad passages are really from the "Song of Solomon", and anyway Mr. Sinclair feels...
...memorial to their son, George Alexander McKinlock Jr., his parents could not have chosen a finer tribute than another Freshman Hall. It is at once a splendid commemoration to one who never lived beyond the years of youth himself and it is also a substantiation of a major note in the university's aims--that of making the first year as pleasant and as satisfactory as possible. McKinlock Hall joins the distinguished company of Smith, of Gore and of Standish and like them it stands as a vital and powerful influence on the men of Harvard...
...George Alexander McKinlock of Chicago, who gave the dormitory to the University in memory of their son, will be present at the ceremony. George Alexander McKinlock Jr. '16 was killed in action in France on July...
...TRIUMPH OP YOUTH-Jacob Wassermann-Boni & Liveright ($2). Bishop Philip Adolph of Wurzburg has a sister-in-law, Baroness Theodata of Ehrenburg and a nephew, her son, Ernest. It is because of Ernest's remarkable propensity for inventing fictions that his uncle, personifying the credulous cruelty of the early 17th Century, supposes the youth to be inhabited by evil powers. The child is clapped into a dungeon, made to watch his erratically lovely mother undergo tortures, urged like Joan of Arc to confess sins of whose existence he is unaware. The triumph of youth is achieved when thousands...