Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...charges one is still somewhat puzzled on trying to visualize the future morality course in actual operation. Such vexing matters as the text book of morality which should be chosen or its proper interpretation, just how honesty is to be made the guiding principle of a prominent swindler's son, or how respect for the flag is to be inspired without arousing dangerous international antipathies indicate a more difficult problem than the Senator seems to contemplate. Finally we are led to wonder how the youthful Nebraskans are to be instructed in the proper sense of the dignity of honest labor...
...newspapers in Mobile, Ala., last week bought an Evening Times, and thereby became publisher of all the evening newspapers in his state's capital, Montgomery. He merged the Evening Times with his Montgomery Evening Journal. Publisher Thompson's onetime partners in Birmingham, onetime Governor Braxton Bragg Comer and son Donald Comer, were not associated with him in the new purchase, their interest in newspapers having been purely industria-political. Save for one newspaper, the Montgomery morning Advertiser (owned by Publisher Victor H. Hanson of the Birmingham News), all the newspapers in Alabama's second and third largest cities...
...telescope; they are not Individuals through whom a type Is suggested, but rather flat and insignificant figures glimpsed through the blurring lens of gen- erality. A man of little skill with words, he gets his effects with pa- tience and a hammer. To his famed Sorrel and Son he attached a long-burning fuse and its sale now exceeds 100,000. This latest book is interesting if only because it too may contain that element, for critics still undefined, which gives a book enormous popular appeal...
ZERO ? Collinson Owen ? Dodd, Mead ($2). John Garth, a London literary machine capable of producing $35,000 per annum, has fame, a mansion, a pretty wife and a son. But the wife plays cards too much. The son is at school. John Garth sickens of being a machine. Convalescing in obscurity, with a beard and scar, after the wreck of a French flyer, he decides not to correct the report that he was killed. He proceeds as Matthew Knowle, the pen-name under which he just published his most successful novel of all, to start a new life...
...Third son of King Hussein...