Word: scionness
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Married, Margaret Winifred ("Peggy") Dorrance, youngest daughter of the late Founder John Thompson Dorrance of Campbell Soup Co., who left her a monthly income of $10,000; and George W. Strawbridge, Philadelphia department-store scion; at Radnor...
Married. Mrs. Nancy Traylor Swift, 23, daughter of the late Chicago Banker Melvin Alvah Traylor, divorced last June from Nathan Butler Swift, meat-packing scion; and Marcy T. Weeks, 25, onetime tintype concessionaire at the Century of Progress Mexican Village; at Chicago's City Hall. For a witness they chose Bartender Dino Sbragio "because we hoped to avoid publicity .... The marriage itself was a very mechanical affair...
...future George V when he was a cadet "The Sprat." Edward VIII as a cadet was "The Sardine." The more serious, studious nature of George VI made him, as a cadet, "Dr. Johnson" and later "Mr. Johnson." It was soon evident that the present King was the only scion of the Royal Family ever to show a definite mechanical bent. Ship mechanisms became his major interest. Even today His Majesty is fond of the exceedingly intricate model railways-not "toys" but "scale models" costing in some cases up to $20,000 for a complete system...
...Boston another and more famed banking scion was promoted in another institution identified with family. Made board chairman of Old Colony Trust Co. was T. (for Thomas) Jefferson Coolidgc, whose lineage is longer than Banker Smith's but whose bank was founded by his father, not grandfather. Since he split with the New Deal, the onetime Under Secretary of the Treasury has been an Old Colony vice president. Banker Coolidge as board chairman succeeded Gordon Abbott, who retired after 43 years in the institution...
...Cooper, Baby Peggy. Conscious of its limitations, he utilizes the waif motif in rudimentary form. Breen appears first in the custody of a fat colored mammy (Louise Beavers), who says she rescued him from a burning village in the Civil War. On the chance that ha may be the scion of a rich Northern family named Ainsworth. he is shipped to New York where he encounters a jealous little cousin (Marilyn Knowlden). a kindly butler (Charles Butterworth ) and a tyrannical old lady (May Robson) who refuses to believe she is his grandmother until a rendering of a Stephen Foster chorus...