Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once a distracted Frankfort woman came moaning to the aged Frau Rothschild, sobbed: "They say that war is breaking out. They will take my only son." A smile compassionate yet proud twitched the lips of Frau Rothschild: "Ach! Do not be afraid. . . . There will be no war. . . . My sons will not provide the money for it this time. ..." She died at 94 in the house with the green shield, in Jew Street. "Here," she used to say, "I have seen my sons grow rich and powerful, and I will leave them their prosperity, for they would certainly lose...
...Heard Oswald Mosley (Laborite son-in-law of arch Tory the late Marquess Curzon of Kedleston) demand of Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain under what treaty rights British troops are being sent to Chinese soil...
...Where Mr. Mosley was recently elected (TIME, Jan. 3), during a riotous campaign in which his rich wife (nee Carzon) kissed many a brat, while Premier Baldwin's son Oliver campaigned for Mr. Mosley, and the Premier's daughter Betty campaigned against...
...measles and much general hilarity, the Duke and Duchess of York landed at Suva, Fiji Islands, last week from the cruiser Renown, on their way to Australia (TIME, Jan. 17 et seq.). The natives, their faces painted, their bodies caparisoned in grassy garments, received the King-Emperor's son with a tama, a prolonged, mournful and most honorable sound, a sound that begins as a grant, crescendoes to a bark, and ends with an exclamation resembling "WHOA...
More popular on the program, however, was a series of playlets, Scenes From The Lives Of The Romanovs, during which Ivan the Terrible murdered his son, and Catherine the Great had one of her ladies-in-waiting "flogged through the trap."* The high point of the performance was a scene showing the astute Tsar Nicholas I cajoling the revolutionary poet Releyef into betraying his associates in conspiracy. Wrote the dramatic critic of Isvestia: "One came away hating the Romanovs like so many viperous snakes...