Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bigwigs, Secretary Mellon has sent a smart young man of 27-Alexander W. Gregg. Mr. Mellon has been accused of possessing many kinds of genius, and not the least of them is his ability to pick certain youths from among other youths, and lift them to fame. Mr. Gregg, son of a Democratic Congressman from Palestine, Tex., came as a clerk to the Treasury Department seven years ago. He plunged so deeply into tax lore that people began to refer to him as "that Texas tax wizard." When Secretary Mellon needed a wiseman to explain his tax reduction plan...
...son of Harvard could wine...
...considered a minute, and then said, "Why, yes, my son, we'll do our best, and folks don't have to read the rest." And then it came to us that that rhymed, and it helped tremendously...
...Wendell is a son of Professor Barrett Wendell '77, who died in 1921. As an undergraduate, he was captain of the baseball team, and served as coach in 1903. He was secretary of his class until 1922, when he resigned because of taking up his residence in Chicago. From 1911 till 1919, he was a member of the Graduate Baseball Committee of Harvard. In 1925 he was elected a member of the Board of Overseers...
...Author. Son of Critic Edward Garnett and Constance Garnett, to whom the great Russians own their most perfect translations into English, and grandson of Author Richard Garnett (Twilight of the Gods), David Garnett nearly betrayed his literary birthright by studying science (gentle Botany). But in 1920, aged 27, he was claimed by books. He opened a bookshop and fell to writing. Lady into Fox appeared after two years. Lest he turn back to science, he was awarded a prize. His wife, who was Rachel Marshall, does woodcuts...