Word: ancestors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...villa was apparently built by one Ancius Petronius Probus, Rome's proconsul for Sicily in 406 and an ancestor of Pope Gregory the Great. Down the corridors of time, conquering Byzantines, Saracens and Normans trod its glittering floors. About a third of them have now been uncovered...
...name of Sanson by establishing a museum of horrors in his home, where for five francs the curious public could watch the family guillotine decapitate a sheep. When he put the guillotine in hock for 3,000 francs and showed up at an execution armed with one of his ancestor's axes, he was finally deposed. Ugly rumor says he eventually became a butcher in Newark...
...seventh Duke of Wellington denies the validity of the Eton-Waterloo epigrammatic statement attributed to his famous ancestor and is willing to spend his money to prove his point, what might he not be willing to do in the case of the story which is quoted from the Irish Digest...
Does the typical private school turn out weak and selfish citizens? "The independen school, like the public high schools in prosperous suburbs, sometimes deals with students whose chief spiritual staff is a silver spoon and whose main intellectual reliance is a successful ancestor . . . Whether the independent school deals with able, mediocre, or limited students, it undertakes to train all in high standards of academic work and performance . . . One great challenge . . . remains: that of finding a means of imparting to all . . . graduates a lasting motivation...
...seventh Duke of Wellington is an unstuffy former diplomat and minor architect, onetime Surveyor of the King's Works of Art (1936-43) and a man who likes to keep the records straight about his most famous ancestor. As a close student of his tough, gunpowdery great-grandfather, he came to doubt that the first Duke ever uttered the sonorous bit of snobbery so dear to generations of British orators: "The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton." So last month he did what any Englishman would do under the circumstances: he wrote a letter...