Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rear grounds of the White House, he greeted his pet raccoon, who wore his gift, a gleaming collar bearing the legend: "Rebecca Raccoon of the White House." Returning indoors, the President gazed reflectively at the three Christmas trees in the Blue Room, decorated by Mrs. Coolidge and their son, John. This was the first time that there have been Christmas trees in the White House since the death of Calvin Coolidge Jr. Later the Presidential family gathered upstairs with Mr. & Mrs. Frank W. Stearns of Boston to open their presents.* Before going to the Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church, the President...
Engaged. Rosamond Reed, daughter of U. S. Senator David Aiken Reed (Pennsylvania); to Charles Denby Jr., son of Charles Denby, onetime (1918, 1922-23) U. S. special representative to China; also nephew of onetime (1921-24) Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby...
Died. Mrs. Roberta Ingersoll, wife of Robert H. Ingersoll (watches); in her Manhattan apartment; instantly, of revolver shot. Nearby, wounded, lay Wallace McClean Probasco, 52, son-in-law of Atheist "Bob" Ingersoll, but not related to the deceased woman. The weapon lay near Probasco...
John J. Bernet was born in 1868, son of a Swiss blacksmith. He too learned the blacksmith's trade and became the best horseshoer in Farnham, N. Y. But locomotive smoke smelled better than forge smoke. Young John got himself a job as a telegrapher...
Lancelot is speaking of his only begotten son, a natural one who was more or less forced upon him by the first Elaine. There was never a fonder father nor prouder, nor ever one more vexed by his offspring's priggishness. For when Galahad left Camelot to seek (as legend soon had it) "the holiest thing in the world," and hence the Grail, it was not so much the quest that lured him as the necessity for a quest that drove him. He had just learned of his irregular birth and, to cap that, of his father...