Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Andrew W. Mellon: "Last week my son Paul, 19, whose present interests are apparently literary rather than financial, was 'elected Vice Chairman of the Yale Daily News. Only a sophomore, he does not regularly begin to write editorials until 1928. In his freshman year he captured a prize for an English essay and was one of the first members of his class to have poetry published in the Lit (undergraduate literary monthly). Another Pennsylvanian, one Lloyd H. Smith, was chosen for the highest office on the News-the chairmanship. Two smart young men from Dayton, Ohio, will guide...
Nicholas Longworth, Speaker of the House: "My nephew, Count René de Chambrun, aged 20, was last week almost jailed in Paris for speeding in his car. The Magistrate let him off with a double fine; assured him of eight days' prison for a second offense. He, son of my sister Clara, is studying to be a diplomat. As his uncle is French Ambassador to Austria, his father General in Command of French troops in Morocco, and as he is also descended from La Fayette, perhaps he will make good...
George Bernard Shaw, playwright: "It was after a dinner last week at the London home of Lady Utica Beecham (who is separated from her husband, Sir Thomas, eccentric, music-loving son of the late pill magnate, Sir Joseph -TIME, Nov. 15). Having finished our port and cigars, we gentlemen strolled into the drawing-room, disposed ourselves variously and engaged the ladies in what passes at such gatherings for conversation. There came, as there always comes, when celebrated authors, statesmen and clerics are present, a lull. Leaning negligently against the mantelpiece, I seized the occasion to muse audibly, 'I have...
...goodness, isn't it lovely," cried his mother, Widow Jane Young, in Toronto. "George has always been a good son, light-hearted but never frivolous. He likes porterhouse steak and tea." Wrapped in blankets in California, the son said: "I want to bring mother to California...
...pathological mishap as symbol of the hideous immorality that easily hides beneath "respectability," is familiar to Broadway. Last year it was done, and the year before and. . . . The plot is taken up with the attempt to build an orphan asylum in honor of Chamberlain Alving, deceased, the while his son's brain softens from inherited syphilis. As a play it is remarkable less for its profundity than for the technical mastery with which it swells through a gorgeous crescendo to a thunderclap climax. Interpretation of the Mrs. Alving's role by Minnie Maddern Fiske, 61, is different. What...