Word: descendantal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Explanatory Ode All persons who aspire to climb The social stair, be warned in time, And saved from treading unaware Upon a step that isn't there. Each proud and unfamiliar name May prove to be a source of shame, If in pronouncing it you make, From lack of...
When General Lafayette romantically left France to help liberate the American colonies he brought with him a young man, Joseph Fouche, whose father was chief of police under Napoleon. The descendant of that young man is the Wilbur Burton Foshay who last week calmly agreed to the receivership of all...
By the end of the 17th Century the halcyon art of Italy had completely decayed. From, the death of Michelangelo to the present day, with the exception of a colorful but shallow digression at Venice, good Italian painting has been practically nonexistent. But in 1884, a sickly boy was born...
And they obeyed, aware that Brother Prajadhipok is, officially, King of Siam, of the North and of the South, and of all the Dependencies, of the Laotians, of the Malays, of the Karens, Descendant of the Great God Buddha, Supreme Arbiter of the Ebb and Flow of the Tide, Brother...
The Author. Herbert Asbury, 38, Missouri-born, is a descendant of Bishop Francis Asbury whose biography he has written, who founded the Methodist Church in the U. S. Author Asbury's own deflection from the faith of his ancestors is expressed in the title of another Asbury book: Up...