Word: sons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obscure village of Szechwan Province in southwest China, a modestly well off Chinese couple was blessed with a manchild, hope and pride of every Chinese home. He was given the name of Chang Shan-tse ("Good Fellow"). Five years later the mother, yielding to her small son's plea for playmates, secured for him three vigorous tiger cubs with which the infant not only played, but slept...
...Son of a parttime minister and farmer of the Black Lands, Wilford Smith went to Dallas as a boy, attended a Moler barber college, graduated (so he said) cum laude. Back in his home county of Delta, he worked in a store, cut hair on the side, studied at night, became a country schoolteacher. Said he: "The only weak moment I ever had was when I played croquet with some old-maid schoolteachers, one of whom I married...
...wildest stabs ever made at history by that extravagant Romancer Alexander Dumas. Its hypothesis: that when Louis XIII's good Queen Anne was brought to bed in 1638, she gave birth to twins. Because dynastically two heirs would have been worse than none, the King reared one son as the future Louis XIV, palmed off the other as the son of his loyal Gascon guard, d'Artagnan (Warren William...
...Actor Louis Hayward, who has made several false starts in cinema, his spirited attack on what the movie industry still calls a Douglas Fairbanks role may at last mean a place above the Hollywood salt. Born 30 years ago in Johannesburg, son of an English banker, Actor Hayward made his London stage name as a juvenile smart enough for Noel Coward shows, his screen debut in the English version of Sorrell and Son. Brought to Hollywood four years ago, he swashbuckled promisingly in Anthony Adverse but soon ran into an unpredictable snag: he began losing his British accent. Last year...
...many a sentimental reader, the books of Novelist Harold Bell Wright (The winning of Barbara Worth, The calling of Dan Matthews) made many a dream seem to get up and walk. Last week the aged author's solemn son Gilbert went his father one better: he made real people talk like waterfalls, braying donkeys, barking dogs, slamming doors, locomotive whistles. The appropriate place: Hollywood...