Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then came the Civil War, "a white gash." Lincoln, a man of full height, was cut down. Soon after, men were describing life as "not dying." Industrialism continued the war, continued slavery. Lincoln's son headed the Pullman Co. Andrew Carnegie vowed to retire to Oxford at 30 but amassed millions instead, and wished another generation the joy he had missed in libraries. Charles Francis Adams went in for railroads. Colorless, sad Howells, despairing Mark Twain, bitter-black Ambrose Bierce were the successors of Herman Melville, whose grappling with the primeval had been tragic but sublime; of Whitman, whom...
...long-Indian and a short Indian were sitting on a fence. The long Indian was the son of the short Indian. But the short Indian was not the father of the long Indian. What relation was the short Indian to the long Indian...
...what college did John D. Rockefeller, Sr., endower of education, send his son and namesake...
...Oliver Wendell Holmes (The father was an able poet, the son is a venerable jurist...
Publisher Thompson had two partners when he bought the Age-Herald; Braxton Bragg Comer, the first citizen of Alabama, 79 this year, who governed Alabama from 1907 to 1911, and his son, Donald Comer...