Word: begat
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...calmness by going about other duties. The U.N. General Assembly felt able to adjourn; Secretary of State Dulles felt able to take off for faraway Australia for a meeting of the SEATO Council; U.S. eyes were even swinging over to darkest Africa, where the old British colonial Gold Coast begat the new nation of Ghana to the blare of a New Orleans jazz band and appropriate quotations and paraphrases of Burke, e.g., "We are on a conspicuous stage, and the world marks our demeanor...
...royal in-laws in a country that is not much larger than the M-G-M lot. The Kelly family tree is, in its way, quite as colorful as Rainier's line. Jack Kelly is the son of a County Mayo farmer who emigrated to Philadelphia and begat a large and boisterous family. Two of Jack's brothers became famous in the theater: Walter ("The Virginia Judge") was a celebrated vaudeville comedian and George (Craig's Wife) a Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright...
...President swapping toasts with the masters of Russia had given Europeans to believe what they long had wanted to believe: that ten years of cold war were over. High wages and full employment seemed evidence that prosperity had come to stay. All this?and the summer weather?begat a mood that the many sensed but few could rightly define. It was relaxation to the English, détente to the French, distensione to the Italians, and if everybody else didn't feel that way, the West Europeans weren't interested in listening to the complaint...
Mark Howe was born in Bristol, R.I., and would not even have achieved a New England birth but for the caprice of a summer vacation. His father was Episcopal bishop of central Pennsylvania, wrote his sermons in Latin and begat 18 children. Young Mark grew up steeped in respectability, devoutness and Victorian culture. By the time he went to Harvard in 1886 and met James Russell Lowell and the senior Holmes, he knew where he belonged. Another adopted Bostonian, Philosopher-Mathematician Alfred North Whitehead, once said that if he were asked to pick one person to send to Mars...
...William and Elizabeth Swift of Sandwich, Mass., in the late 17th century, were born a third son named Joseph and a fourth named Gireh. Joseph begat Thomas, who begat Nathaniel, who begat Gustavus, who founded one of the biggest meatpacking firms in the U.S.: Swift & Co. Gireh begat Zephaniah, who begat Perez, who begat Jesse, who begat Jehiel, who begat Orville. who begat Frank B. Swift, a prosperous wholesale merchant in New York. But while the better-known branch of the family from Sandwich went in for ham, Frank preferred cheese. His big, busy Chelsea commission house handled as many...