Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Michael Pendergast was the son of James Pendergast, grand old man of Democracy in Kansas City. Before he was 21 Michael had begun drawing city pay. In 34 years, by the estimates, he drew $60,000 for his municipal services. But that was not what made him famous. His brother's political power descended in large part to another brother Thomas J., and Michael became right hand...
Presently there was a rumor that she was with child. The Commodore was encouraged by the possibility of recruiting a son to inherit his command. When his wife's "inflation" proved a bubble, he became somewhat embittered against the world in which such trickeries were practiced...
...overnight. We have been working more than eight months on this proposition." From bustling but incurably old-fashioned Nishni Novgorod flashed details of how the proposition was finally put through by Austin's eager, resourceful Executive Vice President George C. Bryant Jr., sire of three daughters and a son who returned to their Cleveland school last week after summering near Pontiac, Mich. Summering in Russia, Mr. Bryant has been in consultation with Soviet engineers who calculated that the new $50,000,000 city could not possibly be built in less than four years. Six bids from European concerns were...
...Woking, Surrey, England, Widow F. E. Stevens, 84, was trundled into St. John's Church in a wheelchair, married to one Cyril Mills, 23, son of an Australian bicyclist...
...Raricks upon whom life brings many blessings in the shape of a chain of 5? & 10? stores. Little weazened Father Rarick acquires the happy faculty of buying hairnets and celluloid balls low and selling them higher builds a 79-story monument to himself, misunderstands his family. His pampered, poetical son, Avery, commits suicide at college because, "it was too much." Mother Rarick bitterly tries to suck romance out of a surreptitious affair with another woman's gigolo, Ramond. Her daughter is fascinated by a handsome married man whose wife is about to give him an heir...