Word: begat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Sadakichi Hartmann, eightyish, dramatist, artist, philosopher and mop-haired onetime "King of Greenwich Village"; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Born in Nagasaki, Japan, son of a Korean woman and a German munitions worker, he married three times, begat 15 children, named one set after jewels, another set for flowers, was the boon companion of artistic greats, from Walt Whitman to John Barrymore...
Wasn't Commandeer Sherwood's announcement unique last Tuesday morning? "I am pleased to announced that Mr. Custer has lost his hat and Mr. Unwin has begat himself a seven pound daughter." Congratulations, Ed, damn good cigars. Nice breaking the trend toward sons. Who's gonna drive the street cars if all our newborn enlist in V-12? How about that Frank P, "Jake...
...joint accord on neutrality and anti-Communism with neighboring Portugal.* He welcomed home General Agustin Muñoz Grande, recently decorated (by Hitler) commander of the Falangist Blue Division fighting in Russia. From his train window at the border, the general shouted: "Long live the mothers who begat the most valiant soldiers in the world." At San Sebastián Falangist crowds cheered his prophecy of "certain Nazi victory over Russian Bolshevism." As forgetful of Spain's claimed neutrality as Franco was in addressing the Falangist National Council (TIME, Dec. 21), the Falangist crowds set up their...
...Bishop's grandfather escaped to Canada at the end of the Civil War when the Union put a price of $100,000 on his head. The Bishop's father married Maria Washington, daughter of Mount Vernon's last private owner, great-grandniece of George Washington. He begat 13 children, was the last Confederate soldier to sit in the Episcopal House of Bishops. Two sons have followed him there-Henry St. George and Bishop Beverley Dandridge Tucker Jr. of Ohio. Two other sons are U.S. rectors and two more missionaries in China. Twelve Tuckers...
...seem paradoxical on the surface, but, actually, a taste for real jazz usually takes more time and effort to acquire than a feeling for Beethoven. The circumstances that begat the two different types have, in this discussion, nothing to do with the case. Most jazzmen would be amazed at the similarity between strict jazz and the thoroughbass music of Bach's time. In both cases you have the rigid rhythmic pattern over which an intricate web of thematic variations is woven. Bach's work had the advantage of being composed by a single highly developed talent, while jazz...