Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: I quote from TIME, March 28, p. 11: "Most U. S. Presidents who have bred sons have bred smart ones-witness President Adams the Elder, Harrison the Elder, Lincoln, Cleveland, Roosevelt, Taft." First, don't you know that President Harrison the Elder bred not a "smart son," but a son who bred a "smart son," President Harrison the younger ? Second, are you sneering at John Coolidge by omitting his name from the "smart sons?" He is "the first boy in the land" (or the "first youth." If you prefer) : and deserves no belittling by you. He is such...
Died. Augustus F. Kountze, 57, of Kountze Bros, (international bankers); at Atlantic City, of apoplexy. Recently his adopted son Leslie Bartindale Kountze, eloped and was still awaiting forgiveness...
...Austrian customs officials were terrified when they spied a case of knives stamped "Palmer & Son...
Bearlike Artamonov Sr. becomes almost lovable during his invasion of the town of Dryomov, with hia masterful bluntness, self-assurance, genuine humility, faith in work; his crude affection for his sons, his bold carnality. Pyotr, the eldest son, is no less stupid than his father except that he knows he is stupid. His endless wondering about the right and wrong of things is what undoes him. Did he kill the clerk's nasty little boy by accident, he asks himself, or in malice, or to save his own son an evil companionship. He cannot decide that and a hundred...
...Devil has a son...