Word: bequested
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...other two funds, the Stoughton Bequest of 1701, provides aid first to residents of Dorchester, second to residents of Milton, and third to Indians...
...scholarship funds from the bequest were distributed until the 20 acres of Dorchester land donated by Stoughton were sold in 1923. The bequest now has a capital value of $127,317.42 which netted $7,815.86 in investment income...
...current University Register, listing all scholarship, beneficiary aid, and loan funds, omits any mention of Indians as a proviso of the Stoughton Bequest...
Here are Peter Finch and Glenda Jackson, two players of skill and intelligence, lending dignity and a measure of passion to a sort of pocket pageant that could bring out the worst in any actor. Rattigan's script-an adaptation of his play A Bequest to the Nation-is a damp recounting of the infamous romance between Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton, a liaison that scandalized Georgian London and threatened, for a time, Britain's naval might...
Honor prevails. "I don't want only half a man, with the better half pining to be out at sea," Lady Hamilton finally decides. Nelson goes to sea and the fleet triumphs, but in the process Nelson is killed. He leaves Lady Hamilton as a "bequest to the nation," so that she may be officially provided for during the rest of her life. An epilogue provides the information that Nelson's dying request was not honored; Lady Hamilton perishes in poverty in Calais. Scenes of her final days would have been a good deal more dramatic than...