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...general manager who will figuratively shovel out these tons of bonds may be a "boy"' but is ripe in tradition. King Louis XV of France was "carved" (as His Majesty expressed it) by Surgeon François Quesnay (ancestor) whom the monarch nicknamed Le Penseur for his philosophical cast of mind. The present M. Quesnay might be called a "career man" of the Bank of France. He functioned as chief French technical advisor last year when Rumania's Leu was being stabilized. At the first and second Hague Conference he prepared the whole documental background of the French...
...great-grandfather's name was von Beneckendorf, but this ancestor's eccentric great-uncle von Hindenburg left him some money on condition that he add "und von Hindenburg" to his "von Beneckendorf." Never before, perhaps, did a "freak will" succeed so well...
...seriously ill in his villa on the Riviera, his great & good friend Author E. Phillips Oppenheim at the bedside. Other books: The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne, The Beloved Vagabond, Septimus, Simon the Jester, The Joyous Ad- ventures of Aristide Pujol, Stella Maris, The Fortunate Youth, Jaffery, The Rough Road, Ancestor Jorico...
...lined overcoat (it has fancy buttons) to the cloakroom attendant and strolled to the speakers' platform, where he presided as retiring president. (California Tech's Robert Andrews Millikan is the incoming president.) His speech tended to show that man and monkeys are descended from so remote an ancestor that they should not be considered related...
...companions, astonished by his strange foreknowledge of events, come to regard him as a sort of unholy ghost. The girl whom he knows his ancestor did marry turns away from him in fear and, tragically, he finds himself falling in love with her sister. This affair is ill-fated even though the lovely Helen knows of Peter's long journey through the years and, like him, perceives that the veils of Time are thin. She is unwilling to see him suffer in an age ill-adapted to his experience, so back he goes to his own century to fondle Helen...