Word: youngest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Judge Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, 77, son of famed novelist Charles Dickens: "I celebrated my golden wedding last week, rejoiced in my six children and 16 grandchildren, mourned my youngest son who was killed during the war. Lady Dickens' three sisters who were her bridesmaids at our wedding 50 years ago, were with us last week. One came from Germany, one from the U. S., and the third has always lived in London...
...Countess Maritza. Ever since The Student Prince, the Shuberts have been putting royalty to music with golden success. Although long awaited, the youngest in line, The Countess Maritza, disclosed nothing more sensational than a former Metropolitan prima donna of human dimensions. Indeed, shapely Yvonne D'Arle's skipping and gestures are more suggestive of the Shubert girl than the Gatti-Casazza stalwart. Had she injected less grand opera bravura into her lyric cadenzas, she might have proved even more effective...
Prince Takahito, eleven years old, youngest son of the Mikado, is already famous as an irrepressible and raucous baseball fan. When he attends one of the numerous interuniversity Japanese ball games a special dais is erected for him near third base, and he invariably insists that the game be played to a finish whether or not rain descends...
Married. Joan Bennett, youngest daughter of Actor Richard Bennett and Actress Adrienne Morrison Bennett (now divorced) ; to one John Martin Fox, son of steel and lumber merchant; at London. The now Mrs. Fox has two sisters: Constance, who married rich Philip M. Plant last year; Barbara, who was the onetime dancing partner of Maurice Mouvet...
...sufficient British parent. "Heath's luck? I look ahead and leave nothing to chance," said he. Yet his friend, Paul Kenyon, prophesied that he would pay for his happiness "to the uttermost farthing." He did. One child left home; another married a rotter; another became a felon. The youngest, whom Stephen really, finally loved, worked himself to death trying to please. Such a tale, such a well defined autocrat as Stephen Heath, might serve the ends of young things with harsh, exacting papas, but Author Forrest spoils most of his effects by belaboring the obvious, philosophizing stodgily...