Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nungesser & Coli. More than eight days had passed since Capt. Charles Eugene Jules Marie Nungesser, idol of Paris, onetime cowpuncher in Argentina, multi-wounded War ace with platinum-patched bones, and Capt. François Coli, son of a hardy clan of seamen, with a black patch over his right eye, left the Paris airport of Le Bourget (TIME, May 16). It was barely possible that they had lost their way in the fog and were alive somewhere in the wilderness of Labrador. It was more likely that heavy ice on the wings of their plane forced them to death...
...Congregational pastor emeritus, whose son, Bruce Barton, wrote The Man Nobody Knows and The Book Nobody Knows) wrote in the Red Book for June: "The most interesting fact in the social life of the globe is the permanent division of the human race into two sexes, approximately equal in number, and each necessary to the complement of the other. Sex, either in itself or in some of its many manifestations-the family, the home, education, life-insurance and all the rest-can never be very far from the centre of the stage in anybody's thinking...
...Thomas Beecham (orchestra conductor, son of the late Beecham, pill manufacturer) walking in London, was oppressed by the heat, stripped off his fur-lined overcoat, hailed a taxi, put coat on seat, bade the driver follow slowly as he walked home...
Mark's lizard-like son, Andred, steals upon them; then Mark himself. After a baleful interview; seeing that time, after all, favors Isolt and himself; and fearful of changing life's irony into death's futility, Tristram leaves Cornwall on pain of being burned before the lady's forcibly opened eyes...
MARCHING ON?James Boyd? Scribner's ($2.50). Jimmy Eraser, son of a Georgia landowner and grandson of the hero of Author Boyd's loud-beaten Drums, hears tales from his uncle of the past glory of their clan. He sees one day the enameled fields and the mansions of Cape Fear, where rich planters raise rice. He goes home unable to forget the beauty of opulent places, still less able to forget the hushed charm of a girl's voice. He falls in love with Stewart Prevost before he sees her. When friendship prompts her to offer him some money...