Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...narrow slanting eyes peeped last week above the topmost crag of the famed Wetterhorn.* Seven hours before, three Japanese and five Swiss guides had set out from Grindelwald. He who peeped royally from the summit, was Prince Chichibu of Japan, second son of the Mikado. As everyone knows, he has wintered and disported himself in Switzerland, has survived an ankle strained while skating and ensuing measles (TIME...
...inhabitants acknowledge the executive shepherdage of Calvin Coolidge, refuse to "recognize" the 139 million Soviet Russians over whom Joseph Stalin has reared himself a despot. M. Stalin ("Mr. Steel") exerts, simply as Secretary of the Communist Party, a political "boss power" prodigious and all pervasive. A cobbler's son whose actual name and age are doubtful, "Mr. Steel," was born in the remote Transcaucasian land of Vras-tan, Gruzia or Georgia.* Amid the purging flames of revolution, the great Dictator Lenin tested and tempered the Georgian's metal, gave him the prophetic name of Stalin, installed...
...haystack flew at the shrieking passengers, then another, then the cabin crushed in upon them, everything upside down in pain, screams, a horrifying silence. Some of the passengers regained consciousness before they were dragged out; some awoke in Folkestone and Sandgate hospitals. Robert Blaney, just-graduated-from-Harvard son of Artist Dwight Blaney of Boston never awoke; neither did another passenger, an Italian. The French pilot died next day. The British Air Ministry started investigations into "the most serious passenger airplane tragedy England has ever experienced."* Yet there was no thought of abating air travel in Europe. Frightful though...
...Published by James M. Thompson, son-in-law of the late Champ Clark of Missouri, eloquent Speaker of the House, who battled Woodrow Wilson for control of the Democratic party...
Miss Hanna, a daughter of Mrs. Stuart Hanna by a first marriage, was adopted by the late Dan Hanna, son of the late famed U. S. Senator Mark Hanna, after her mother's marriage to him. She thus inherited a share of Dan Hanna's fortune...