Word: bequeath
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shall meet my brave warriors in the Elysian Fields. ... We shall talk of our battles to the Scipios, to Hannibal, Caesar and Frederick. What a delight that will be! If only people here on earth are not terrified at seeing so many soldiers put their heads together! ... I bequeath the shame of my death to the royal family of England...
...year ago last week many people were puzzling their heads over the just-then-published will of the late Publisher Frank Andrew Munsey. What on earth had inspired him, a man with no inkling or appreciation of art, to bequeath all but a trifle of his 40 millions? to the Metropolitan Museum...
...Whereas my honored and revered great-grandfather, Anson G. Phelps, bequeathed to my father $5,000 . . . the income therefrom to be devoted to the spread of the Gospel and to promote the Kingdom of the Redeemer on Earth . . . I bequeath the said sum of $5,000 to my son, Cleveland Earl Dodge ... to be sacredly appropriated as was directed in my grandfather's will...
...applied as an American innovation. As an educational experiment the fortunes of the Claremont Colleges ought to be of wide interest. The main issue seems to be whether these colleges can obtain a university outlook with a small college organization. The units, obviously, will not have the traditions which bequeath the Oxford colleges their intellectual heritage. The American attempt must find its success in American conditions...
...three children of his second wife "are similarly provided for by their father's estate." "But," the will, written in Curzon's handwriting, continues: "I bequeath to each of them the sum of $25,000 as proof of my affection...