Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mitchell, as a Minnesota boy, yearned to be an electrical engineer. Fishing in the Mississippi, he carried screws, coils, wire and switches in his jeans as well as worms and tackle. His father was by way of becoming a distinguished justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court when the callow son said he had no use for law because he "never knew a lawyer who amounted to very much." He played the mandolin and mumble-dy-peg, went to Lawrenceville. played lacrosse, went to the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale...
...earlier, minister to The Hague and to Berlin ("Most valuable public character we have abroad," said George Washington). His great-great-grandfather was John, second U. S. President, first occupant of the White House, husband of delightful Abigail Smith. Mr. Adams's daughter, Catherine, married Henry S., son of J. Pierpont Morgan...
...came his string of "oo" boats-Papoose (1887), Babboon (35-footer), Gossoon (40-footer) in which he beat Capt. Charles Barr in the Scotch cutter Minerva; Harpoon (1892) in which he won the Goelet Cup at Newport; and the Rooster and Crooner. He is a stern skipper; his own son calls him "Mister Adams" on shipboard...
...three persons designated to receive a peerage one has died in the meantime. No matter. The dead man's son, Urban R. Broughton, will receive that to gain which his late, rich father, Urban H. Broughton, perpetrated so many philanthropies-including the donation of Ashridge Park to the nation...
...announced that His Most Catholic Majesty had decreed the dissolution of the whole Artillery Corps and the closing of the Royal Artillery Academy, What this means can only be appreciated by recalling that Spain's richest and most potent families have been accustomed to send at least one son to the Artillery Academy, that he might graduate into the Corps, which has been the privileged and aristocratic flower of the whole Army...