Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That fighting son of Brittany, Premier Aristide Briand, mourned last week at the death of another great Breton, a man less famous but perhaps more beloved, M. Anatole le Braz, "the Bard of Brittany." Anatole le Braz was born 67 years ago in the very heart of the Breton peninsula and of parents so close to the soil that they did not even speak French-a language still regarded as unmelodious and effete by the simple Breton woodcutters and charcoal burners among whom M. le Braz grew up. At ten years of age he was sent to school at Saint...
Born. To Mr. & Mrs. Francis Grover Cleveland (youngest son of U. S.. President Cleveland) a daughter, at Cambridge, Mass...
Died. Louis Philippe Robert, Due d'Orleans, 57, pretender to the Throne of France, great-grandson of King Louis Philippe of France, son of the late Comte de Paris, head of the House of Bourbon-Orleans, incorrigible spendthrift, North Polar explorer; at Palermo, Italy...
...sons of great men begin life under a handicap. They know that they are expected to do badly so that the older generation can use the phrase, "He's not the man his father was." Who would expect, say, the son of Steve Donoghue, England's greatest jockey to be able to ride? Or, if he could ride, who would expect him to win a horserace? And even if he won a horserace, who would expect him to win it on a 100 to 1 shot while his father, badly beaten, came tottering in unplaced...
Jockey Donoghue has a son, Pat by name, 15 by age. He can ride horses. The horse he rode last week was W. J. Belleroy's King of Clubs, the race the Lincolnshire Handicap. Steve Donoghue, on Argeia, came in unplaced...