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...years no Maharaja of Jaipur had begotten a male heir. Yet lo and behold! last week a squawling man child was born, the prayerfully begotten son of His Highness the Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Bahadur, age 20, salute 17 guns...
...blood of Koor. When Gipsy Noke kills the highwayman he instinctively tries to placate the ghost as his ancestors did. And nothing could be more prehistoric than the love-making of Tom Shellett and his half-sister Charity. The Squire marries, gaffers die, murder is done and bastards begotten, but every evening the village worthies gather at the inn to have their tankards and their talk. And here, Author Bullett implies, is Life; the rest is mere incidental History...
...expect she'll be lousier than she is swell. You spoil your women. We spoil our men. They can stand it better. Women turn out best in adversity. It may be hard on their youth and beauty, but it's good for their character. . . . [Novelist Priestley has begotten one daughter...
Returning to Madrid with his bride, King Alfonso XII, who had been a childless widower, swiftly begot two daughters, but died in 1885 without knowing whether or not he had begotten a son. Three months passed. The elder daughter, Maria de las Mercedes, 5, was then a Queen-Babe under her mother's regency. Suddenly the royal physicians proclaimed, amid prodigious Spanish rejoicings, that the Queen Mother was certainly with child. Thereafter excitement was intense and betting unrestrained. Would it be a mere girl, or was there actually stirring in the royal widow a KING...
...last week the new President of Austria lived in three rooms* at 94 Nussdorfer Strasse, Vienna, with his brother and two sons. Married in 1900, this sterling citizen has since begotten from the same wife 11 children, of whom two are priests, two nuns. Frau Leopoldine Miklas lives most of the time in a four-roomed house at Horn, one and a half hours from Vienna by rail, with the President's five youngest sons. Through a quiet life of 56 years he has risen slowly from obscure school teaching to be rector of a little college, then Speaker...