Word: parents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sons of public men nowadays are seldom permitted to participate in their parent's official experiences. The usual feeling is that they should be shielded from fame rather than educated by means of it. A century ago the attitude was different. For example, 16-year-old James Gallatin, son of famed Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin, was taken to Europe as private secretary on the father's diplomatic mission which resulted in the Treaty of Ghent...
...four different sexes in toadstools. Their differences are so slight that they can be called only plus or minus. Each type can breed with the other three and, under some circumstances, with its own kind. The differences seem to result from the differences in food substances absorbed by the parent fungi. The toadstool sexes are variable. If such is true of fungi, it may also be true of higher life forms...
Such were the seven who had sworn "on Scopy's book" (an ancient "Cyclopedia of Nursery Remedies") that never again would they allow themselves to be separated and parcelled out to their various undeserving parents. For of parents there were almost as many as children: The Wheaters sponsored Judy, the twins, and after divorce and remarriage, Chipstone, badge of truce. In an intervening marriage to a gaudy cinema star Mr. Wheater begat Zinnie, while Mrs. Wheater retaliated with a decadent Italian prince, and adopted Beechy and Bun, offspring of his earlier alliance with a circus acrobat. When the Wheaters...
Croatians mourn Raditch as their most potent protector from the tyranny of Serbia, which is the "Parent Kingdom" of that realm called Jugoslavia, which includes Croatia. Jugoslavs of national consciousness believe, however, that Stefan Raditch, whom they deem a demagog, was a pernicious influence, obstructing the eventual union of the Serbs, Croats and other South Slavian peoples. If his murder does not provoke a revolution in Croatia, it may yet prove to have been for the eventual good of the whole kingdom...
...Clyde and Scotland's dreary coal mines are the new cradle of British Reds. Last week the British Coal Miners' Federation Conference met at Llandudno, Wales, and was bearded by five Scotch Reds, executives of the Scotch Communist Miners' Union, which was recently expelled from the parent Federation. "Tyrant!" bawled the Scots at Federation President Herbert Smith, 65, "we demand a hearing...