Word: descendantal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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It is an insult to the distinguished memories of two great men to publish the fact that Edward Holton James of Boston is their nephew [TIME, Aug. 22]. Imagine philosophical William James parading the streets to pervert justice for a Bolshevist fishmonger and a Bolshevist ditchdigger, both of them murderers...
Socially well-posted U. S. Negroes know that at Rome resides the most ancient and patrician aristocracy in Europe. Prince Massimo of Rome is an undisputed descendant of the Roman General Quintus Fabius Maximus, "The Delayer" (Third Century B. C.). The family of the late Prince Scipione Borghesi is both...
Married. Marguerite Montgomery Jay, direct descendant of John Jay, first Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court; to the Rev. William Dudley Foulke Hughes; in Manhattan.
Adam, Biblical father of the human race, was called "that weakling," and Mother Eve "an angel," last week at Belfast, Ireland, by their suppositious descendant Viscountess Astor, famed "First Woman M. P." tireless exhalter of women over men.
A tribute to the memory of Lionel de Jersey Harvard '15, only lineal descendant of John Harvard to graduate from Harvard College, will be put in place this summer according to the current issue of the Alumni Bulletin. Three identical bronze tablets will be unveiled at the John Harvard house...