Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...farm near Forli, in the foothills of the Apennines. The iron features of Il Duce seemed those of a stern husbandman as he guided his old-fashioned plow drawn by two white oxen past purring cinema cameras; but to relieve and humanize the drama little Bruno, his younger son, straddled one of the oxen. Not until last week, however, did newsgatherers learn the impressive details of germination. . . . Despatches from Forli told that the sprouting shoots of Signer Mussolini "have already done so well that they are considered the best of the whole region. . . ." From the super-sower, super-wheat. Although...
Dunbar Dyson Beck, son of an Indianapolis, Ind., airbrake manufacturer, had submitted several canvases, the central one representing the eternal Madonna and Child in an "Adoration...
...Son of a poor miller who dabbled in philosophy and science, Isaac Hudson Maxim was born in Orneville, Me. In his youth he pitched hay and won fame as wrestler at county fairs; but at home his sister, Lucy, four years older, could throw him with ease. The Maxims were a hardy clan. After an elementary study of chemistry at the old Maine Wesleyan Seminary, Hudson went into the printing business, soon invented a color process for the Evening Journal of Pittsfield, Mass. This newspaper was the first in the U. S. to print a daily edition in colors...
...Minnie Greenberg of Brooklyn "had trouble" with Mr. Greenberg. She sent their small son Oscar to board with Mr. and Mrs. Max Kashdan, keeping her daughter Mollie at home. Mr. Greenberg died. Mrs. Greenberg became a Mrs. Chaizel and sent for her son Oscar. But the Kashdan family, attached to Oscar whom they had renamed Max, moved 16 times to elude the mother, keep the son...
Born. To President Paul von Hindenburg, 79, of Germany; a great-granddaughter. The parents are Herr and Frau Hans Heinrich von Brockhusen. Herr von Brockhusen is the son of the President's daughter...