Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conduct was "reprehensible" in the findings of special-Assistant-to-the-Attorney-General Pierce Butler Jr., son of Associate Justice Butler of the U.S. Supreme Court, who last week finished a thoroughgoing review of the Barnett case. Mr. Butler found: 1) the Interior Department had no power to give away Barnett's wealth; 2) the U. S. could sue to annul Barnett's marriage to Anna Laura Lowe; 3) suits to recover Barnett's wealth were justified; 4) nobody had been guilty of criminal conspiracy or fraud...
...confetti or paper streamers, or to rise and cheer when the hostess, with a roll of drums, tripped in. Even now when Texas Guinan, perched on a chair-back with her suckers around her, invokes an atmosphere indisputably authentic, the public is not allowed to forget that her grown son, whom she has not seen for years, will presently turn up and be accused, at the moment he is recognized by her, of a murder committed by someone else. Feeble directing of these elements is compensated chiefly by the beautiful legs of Lila Lee as a night club entertainer. Best...
Prince Louis Ferdinand Victor Edward Adalbert Michael Hubert von Hohenzollern, 21-year-old grandson of onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II, and second son of Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, last week landed in New York. Having just received his Ph. D. from the University of Berlin, he is in the U. S. for a three-week visit to study, like any European, "conditions." Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, Great Britain's impeccable Home Secretary, last week punctuated his campaign against indecency (TIME, Dec. 31), in which he has already suppressed eleven books, with a Final Appeal. Addressing a meeting of British...
Thereupon pompous Wesley Dexter offered himself richly in marriage, and Missie dared not disappoint her grandmother by marrying the florist's son instead. Wesley proved unfaithful, unbearable; but Missie did not divorce him in spite of her love for an excellent man, the successor to the florist's son. The reasons: her sacred marriage vows, her duty to her son. That the son should turn on her years later seemed but the fitting sequel to a selfless, pathetic life...
Incidental characters Mrs. Rinehart creates with a sure touch?the chorus girl turned by marriage into a lumpy termagant; the stern old grandmother who indulges a reprobate son. But, often as not, her dramatic moments flare into melodramatic anticlimax: Missie, weary of a wasted life, staggers to her old home, turns on the gas stopcock, falls asleep. "As the sun rose it turned into burnished copper the tarnished gas bracket, through which no gas had flowed for many years, and beat pitilessly on her throat; that throat on which her life was etched with fine lines, and in which...