Word: ancestors
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Arriving in a railroad station in Rossmore, Illinois, after a trip to New York to sell a historical book about his famous ancestor, Cooper, as Cas Q. Brown, is met with a big kiss and a case of the sniffles by Anita Louise, his one-and-only-at-the-time. A few quick scenes take care of talks with poppa, profligatish Frank Morgan at his usual best, and preliminary preparations for the wedding. Comes the day of the wedding rehearsal, comes a letter from the Ellen Harris Maternity Hospital suggesting immediate consultations, comes a big headache for Cooper...
...impulses of human kindness and the teachings of the Catholic Church should now yield to a false, pagan code of tyranny because of blood and race. How can men of good will fail to heed those solemn words of Pope Pius XI: 'Abraham is called our patriarch, our ancestor. Anti-Semitism is not compatible with the sublime reality of this text. It is a movement in which we Christians cannot share. Spiritually we are Semites...
...referring to Count Eric von Rosen whose name has been mentioned in connection with me elsewhere in the press and even in Congress. Eric von Rosen, it is true, is a relative of mine, but you will have to go back five generations to find a common ancestor. As far as I can remember I met Eric von Rosen only once in my life and that was about 20 years ago. Unfortunately for me, he is a brother-in-law of Hermann Göring, his wife's sister being the first wife of Hermann Göring...
...George took special pride in his ancestor, Sir Sitwell Sitwell, an 18th-Century baronet who once hunted an escaped Bengal tiger over the Yorkshire moors with a pack of hounds. (Sir Sit-well's ghost occasionally appeared at Reni-shaw, peering gloomily through the glass front door.) Another ancestor was Lord Hutchinson of Alexandria and Knock-lofty, whose father succeeded in making one of his nieces the full-salaried colonel of a crack regiment. He protested bitterly when the War Office reduced the old lady to half...
...Governor's one direct Saltonstall ancestor in the Revolutionary War did no fighting, but at least he favored the American side. Most of his contemporary kin were Tories...