Word: sons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farm, Mr. Renshaw was about to lose his land by foreclosure. He got cancer of the face. All his horses died. He broke his arm. His car went to pot. He had to sell his hogs for practically nothing. When the subject of patriotism came up at school, his son James, 14, said the hell with the U. S. and The Star-Spangled Banner. The loan company foreclosed, and the Renshaws had to pay rent to keep on living on their own farm. Mrs. Renshaw broke her collarbone, and Doris, 12, and Iris, 11, had to do all the housework...
...jump over this here stick!" shouted the drunken father, who had sold the family Furniture to buy liquor. While mother and sister wept to see such sport, the tearful little sprout jumped over a broom handle, again & again until he fell exhausted. The scene shifted-years had passed. The son, arriving home drunk from a football game, forced his aging father to jump over a stick. "Have mercy on my grey hairs," begged the old man. "You didn't have any mercy on my black ones," said the boy. "Jump again." Father swooned...
...surprised the tennis world by suspending from amateur competition pending a hearing two of its most famed players: square-headed Gene Mako, doubles partner of Donald Budge on three Davis Cup teams, and ornery Wayne Sabin, ninth in world ranking this year. Sabin, son of a Portland, Ore. house painter, played in 25 tournaments in the past twelve months...
...Harvard dormitory was Stone & Kimball's first office. Herbert Stuart Stone, described as a "martinet" in appearance, an "exquisite" in taste, was the son of the founder-editor of the Chicago Daily News...
Hannibal Ingalls Kimball Jr., a shrewd, dynamic businessman, was the son of a Yankee-born Atlanta capitalist. In their junior year, they published a 5? guide to the Chicago World's Fair, written and illustrated by Stone. It netted $600. Before graduation they had published books by Hamlin Garland, Eugene Field, Joaquin Miller George Santayana. In 1894 they moved to Chicago. Their house organ was a little magazine called The Chap-Book dedicated to "all that is most modern and aggressive in the Young Man's literature." Within the next few years they had introduced...