Word: descendantal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The original Andrew Jackson was their great-granduncle and great-grand-foster-father. Children of his own Andrew Jackson had none. But he adopted and named Andrew Jackson Jr. his dead wife's sister's son, descendant of Inventor Eli Whitney of cotton gin fame. The present Andrew Jackson, a...
His Eminence will probably not live to finish what is one of the most comprehensive biblical researches ever attempted. Twenty years ago he was a Benedictine Abbot and a recognized authority upon the medieval Church in England. Upon his appointment he set to work in the Palace of St. Calixtus...
A descendant of Daniel Webster returned good for evil, last week, to famed Lev Davidovitch Trotsky. The descendant is Poet Max Eastman, 45, sometimes considered a dilettante radical, onetime editor of the brilliant but now defunct review, The Masses* and author of Since Lenin Died. Of this volume Comrade Trotsky...
More exciting than to listen was to reflect upon the legend that the new little Earl is a descendant of "Little Jack Horner" on his mother's side. She was Miss Katharine Horner, and her paternal progenitor was that James ("Jack") Horner who was Steward to the rich Abbot...
The Story. On the shores of Lake Undega in New York State is Berkenmeer. Its Main Street has a gaudy haberdashery shop, but there are also ancient elm trees that once sheltered a tougher tribe of Yankees. Arthur Gordon, a descendant, is the grand vizier of Berkenmeer. With an air...