Word: ancestors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Marie Odet Jean Armand de Chapelle de Jumilhac, 76, Due de Richelieu, the title conferred by Louis XIII on his Prime Minister, Cardinal Armand Jean du Plessis, who passed it on to a grandnephew, Jean de Vignerot, ancestor of the last Due de Richelieu; after a month's illness; in Manhattan...
...that "some of the descendants of those early [U.S.] immigrants have come to the conclusion that they shouldn't help other people who are now in the same condition ... I am not one of them, although my roots go back as far as any ... I am not an ancestor hunter...
From this, Murdock considers it a short, logical step "to regard the medicine man as the lineal ancestor not of the physician but of the psychiatrist." Modern sophisticates who speak jokingly of their psychoanalysts as "witch doctors" are closer to the mark than they think...
...young students from Britain, members of the Oxford University debating team, stood one evening last week, outside the Norfolk State Prison Colony, 15 miles southwest of Boston, and gazed up at the big concrete walls. "I have one ancestor who was a murderer," said Richard Taverne. Said William Rees-Mogg: "My only criminal ancestor was a bigamist in the 18th Century." After delivering themselves of these genealogical notes, the two Britons marched up to the gatehouse and went inside. After a 2½-month undefeated tour of U.S. campuses, the Oxonians were making one of their last U.S. appearances-this...
...make one big assembly hall out of it." The letter received hundreds of replies. In 1940, when Albert de Rhode '04 wrote, "Memorial Hall should be cherished for what it represents, not for what it may seem to the present generation. We shouldn't object to an ancestor's portrait because of his large nose...