Word: scion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...April's shower of proxy statements reveals that a few fortunate chiefs are drawing record payments of salary, bonus and benefits: $1.7 million to Revlon's Michel C. Bergerac, for example, and $2.5 million to Warner Communications' Steven J. Ross. Alan Ladd Jr., the dollar scion of a departed Hollywood heman, collected $1.9 million last year as president of the 20th Century-Fox movie division, mostly in the form of a bonus for having had the shrewd sense (or good luck) to make Star Wars. Ford Motor had three men in seven figures: President Philip Caldwell, Executive...
...Sweeney, Cariou performs with epic ashen gravity like a scion of the House of Usher summoned forth by Poe. Quite wonderful and totally different is Lansbury's Mrs. Lovett, a blowsy pragmatist as wickedly succulent as one of her pies. Within a broodingly ominous iron clad set, Harold Prince directs his accomplished forces with the flash, flourish and panache of a Broadway Patton...
...build his own political base. Few Republicans wanted to challenge New York's Democratic Governor Averell Harriman in 1958. Rockefeller was the answer to the state party's prayers: a new face with plenty of cash. Then came the surprise. This hitherto untested, pampered and occasionally standoffish scion of one of America's greatest fortunes turned out to be a political natural. Plunging into crowds on the sidewalks of New York, devouring whatever ethnic food was thrust into his hand, greeting everybody with a hearty "Hi ya, fella," he wowed downstate Democrats and upstate Republicans alike...
American Express has reason to persist and even to raise its offer. Under Howard L. Clark, who was chairman from 1960 through early 1977, revenues soared from $75 million to $3.4 billion, and profits hit $262 million. Growth has continued under new Chairman Robinson, the workaholic scion of an Atlanta banking family and protégé of Family Friend Clark. But Amexco has largely saturated the market for high-income holders of credit cards, and competitor Visa and some major banks are also trying to sell their own traveler's checks. Earnings from Fireman's Fund Insurance...
...young girl into a young woman eligible to receive suitors. Cynical observors often labeled the coming out season "the marriage market,", since a debutante's family hoped that by the end of the season and its whirl of parties, dances, and functions, the debutante would have become some scion's fiancee. A historian or sociologist might interpret this social mechanism to introduce a girl to the "Right People" as an affirmation of class superiority...