Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stock Exchange; to one Anna Mary Schleis, 41, onetime chambermaid in his home; in Port Chester, N. Y. She, Czechoslovakian and his fourth bride, assured the other servants that she would "still consider the members of the household my equals." Charles Edy Monroe, quinquagenarian, Mr. Savin's adopted son, apologized to newsgatherers for having imbibed a few too many "holiday spirits"; vouchsafed "You can say there will be no honeymoon trip...
...was?and his voice shook with pride when he said it? a Corsican. His grandfather, his own father's father, had been a cousin of Napoleon Bonaparte! His surname, once Buonfiglio? "good son" in feud-loving Corsica ?had become gallicized into Bonfils. He had attended West Point but left hurriedly. Corsicans, cousins of Napoleon, resent discipline. He had come West, flash and dapper, intent on a killing; and now he was already a legend. He was the Fred G. Bonfils who had lately cleaned out of Kansas City with $800,000 and no holes in his skin. That...
Fleshy Feodor Karamazov has begot, among others, three legitimate sons. The fierce appetites of the sire burn in the brothers. The father is murdered, the oldest son accused. Innocent, he accepts the punishment of Siberian exile, in order to repent the many excesses of his tempestuous nature, thus enters Salvation. The youngest brother finds light and peace in the holy sacrifice of priesthood. The second, whose fate is stark tragedy, has evolved a philosophy of cold rationality, wherein there is neither God nor morality, but only masterful determination to take advantage of every circumstance Fortune throws his way. Apprised...
...true that a drunkard's son will drink badly (that acquired characteristics are inheritable) ? Not demonstrably. Why is it that more male babies die than females? Because: 1) their inheritance contains more recessive (weak) characteristics; 2) semi-lethal characteristics are of the recessive type. Is death a necessary consequence of life? Immortality has been achieved for certain flatworms, is observable in certain trees. Is sex predeterminate? Not yet, but soon perhaps; meantime, no man is not latently female, and functional sex reversal has actually been wrought upon frogs, chickens, owls...
...Ogle, spared only by a check for vulgar cinema rights from the humiliation of hav-ing to borrow like the rest, abjures highbrow writing and is grateful for Olivia Tinker's hand in marriage. Mme. Momoro, hav-ing acquired what a devoted mother-of-the-world could for her son, departs in gratitude for Paris...