Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Famed sack-consuming philosopher and companion of Prince Hal, he was later ousted from England, migrated to Germany. His descendants changed the family name to Folstadt, then to Volstadt. Most of the Volstadts were hearty beer drinkers, but not so the youngest son who felt the lure of the prairies of the New World. On arrival in the U. S. he changed his name to the simpler Volstead, little knowing that one of his progeny (Andrew by name) would some day put Volstead on the lips of teeming millions. (U. S. folk lore...
...They crunched his father's fingers one by one between wooden slabs. They ran his father through the middle with the cold tines of a pitchfork, tossed him on the white snow beside the body of his brother near the grey ice of the Dnieper. George Zagorsky, 25, son of onetime Brigadier General Zagorsky of the Czar's Imperial Russian Army has good reason to detest "Reds." Last week George sweltered in Manhattan, parsed verbs, declined nouns and pronouns. He already speaks fluently French, Russian, German, Greek, Italian, Turkish- no English. He has 18 days in which...
...miles through calm and stormy seas, returned (TIME, June 28). Last week he journeyed to White Pine Camp at President Coolidge's invitation. He presented his card: Harvey S. Firestone Jr. If such things were done, there might have been in one corner of the card: Son of famed tire-magnate; in another corner Princeton University, 1920; and finally, below his name in bold type: Extremely well-informed on rubber...
...years ago that Mr. Adams and his son paid a call on General Santa Anna of Mexico at Snug Harbor, Staten Island. From a bureau drawer the General produced "a little chunk of something resembling overshoeing." The guests beheld him place a piece of this substance in his mouth, chomp his jaws, smile. They dubiously examined the "overshoeing," which the General called "chicle" and said was the gum of the zapote tree. They too chomped, smiled...
Going home, Mr. Adams pondered chicle's possibilities as a commercial rubber, but his subsequent attempts at vulcanizing (baking to harden) it, all failed. He tried to utilize it as a base for false teeth, but that failed. With $35 capital, Mr. Adams founded Adams & Son, chewing gum manufacturers, which merged in 1899 into the American Chicle Company, capital of about $2,000,000, producers of sticks of "health-giving, circulation-building, teeth-preserving, digestion-aiding, brain-refreshing, jaw-developing, soul-tuning chewing...