Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Queen Elizabeth, gowned in salmon pink crêpe de chine, said smilingly: "You know, my son is tall. Well, the princess reaches his eyes...
Bernardone, the father, permitted himself only once to display the irritation which his son's behavior had so often occasioned. As a rule he accepted Jack's madcapery with an indulgent "Tschik"; with the Signora he often delayed in his shop discussing how Jack wasted his days lounging and singing beside fountains, how he rebounded from one girl to another, above all how he spent money- wasting it, throwing it away in pursefuls. "More like some prince than our son," said the mother in despair; but the father had not even objected when Jack rode...
...bishop. At their feet was a parcel of rich woven-stuffs, linen and cloth of gold, a silver altar cloth, a sword-belt. The bishop, brown and quiet, was explaining something, half-humorously, to Pietro Bernardone; the merchant seemed too angry to hear him. Had he ever denied his son anything? Why, Jack's friends called him Francis because of his rich ways. And now to turn thief. If Jack had asked he would have given him that bundle of gewgaws. But to run off with them to give them to the Church-bah! A vision, did the bishop...
...Every year a man spends in college or in graduate work puts him just that much further ahead of the fellow who starts working before he has completed his education," declared Charles Edison, a son of Thomas A. Edison, noted inventor and technical expert in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter. In his suite at the Copley-Plaza, Mr. Edison, who is president of the corporation founded by his father, discussed freely his views on education as well as the life and work of his famed progenitor...
...SON JOHN-E. B. Dewing-Minton, Balch...