Word: sons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have your mother's eyes and hair," says lawyer Wakem to his crippled son. "You loved her very much, didn't you?" counters young Philip, who has dreamy eyes and wavy hair. This is typical of John Drinkwater's dialogue, which deserves special notice, for it is an extraordinary achievement. It contains every cliche or trite observation which was ever concocted out of the English language, and it will probably be used for reference by future generations. Before very many reels have passed, you will catch yourself trying to predict the next lines...
...where denunciation had been loudest, now came a "defense" more destructive than any attack so far. Wrote Author Harold Nicolson, in whose "Long Barn" estate at the foot of the Kentish weald Lindbergh stayed during his English exile: "He emerged from that ordeal (the 1932 kidnap-murder of his son) with a loathing for publicity that was almost pathological. He identified the outrage to his private life first with the popular press and then . . . with freedom of speech and then, almost, with freedom. He began to loathe democracy, . . . His self-confidence thickened into arrogance and his convictions hardened into granite...
Angelo Michieli left his native Italian village, sailed to the U. S. to make a new home. His wife and infant son he had to leave behind until he had their passage money saved...
...Sweden in the 81 years since King Gustaf's birth is just about the best possible argument for constitutional monarchy. The Royal House, as lineage goes in Europe, is extremely young. His Majesty is only the great-grandson of its founder Jean Bernadotte, soldier of fortune, the son of a French petit bourgeois of Pau who played his own hand as a soldier-politician until Napoleon came along and outdid him. Alive to the main chance, Bernadotte was glad for a job as one of Napoleon's generals. His military exploits were negligible, but he was a good...
Bernadotte went through the motions of asking Napoleon, who exclaimed "Preposterous! Absurd!", but a few months later the Emperor made the best of it, approved the deal. So the Swedish people elected Bernadotte their Crown Prince, and Swedish King Karl XIII adopted the Frenchman as his son under the name Prince Karl Johan. In the eight years which ensued before Sweden's old King died, the Crown Prince consolidated his position, became one of Sweden's popular figures, and this priceless asset the House of Bernadotte de Ponte Corvo has skilfully conserved for more than 100 years under...