Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glum she cheered him. "Old Bob" died. His wife was left with his spirit, his political faith, his four children. The oldest, Robert M. Jr., went into the Senate. He has his father's chubby face; he serves with insurgent distinction, a mere child (age 30) among Senators. Son Philip, 29, is District Attorney in his home county. He has his father's shock of hair; he is a fiery orator. Last month he became the proud father of Robert Marion LaFollette III. Daughter Fola, once a suffragette, then a talented actress who played ingenue parts in Manhattan...
...Until recently, the Hay residence was occupied by his son-in-law and daughter, Senator and Mrs. James W. Wadsworth. The Adams house is now the Brazilian Embassy...
...virtually "seized and held" as her London residence Marlborough House, the traditional residence of the Princes of Wales. Doubtless it never occurred to the Queen Mother Alexandra-born to reign if ever mortal was-that she should abandon Sandringham to a king-emperor who was, after all, her son. Filially meek, George V and his consort were content to dwell at York Cottage, on the fringe of Sandringham, whenever they sojourned with "the Queen"* in Norfolk...
...that room disturbed? On the bureau had lain undisturbed for more than three decades a little pile of silver and copper coins. They had been left there carelessly by Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, before he contracted influenza and died at Sandringham (1892). He, the eldest son of Edward and Alexandra (then Prince and Princess of Wales) was heir presumptive to the British Crown. Moreover his betrothal to Princess Mary of Teck had been announced and touted as a love match...
...when he set out to seek his fortune. Starting as a Hudson's Bay Co. (see p. 29) apprentice, Baron Strathcona at 94 was respected as one of the builders of the Canadian Pacific Railway, was known as the "Grand Old Man"* of Canada. Lady Strathcona's son, Capt. Donald Howard, accedes to the baronetcy. Died. Henry Wade Rogers, 72, famed Judge of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, onetime Dean of the Yale Law School, onetime President of Northwestern University; at Trenton, N. J. Jurist Rogers, aggressive, forced the "case system" on conservative Yale law-dons...