Word: descendantal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the words of a revolutionary statesman rose out of century-old oblivion, cheered Wet leaders. For in the pages of a letter, grown yellow and faded, Gouverneur Morris penned vigorous words 123 years ago that now threaten the legality of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution (commonly known...
Inheritors. As the last in her repertory, Eva Le Gallienne revives Susan Glaspell's Inheritors, a play on true Americanism. For those who do not object to a lofty propaganda with their theatre, it offers tense, lucid drama. For others, it seems wordy. The first scene shows the farmer...
Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 17th Duque de Alba, 10th Duke of Berwick, descendant (as his name suggests) of an illegitimate son of King James II, eleven times a Grandee of Spain, and through the Larreategui family a descendant of Christopher Columbus: "As an intimate of His Most Catholic Majesty King...
Engaged. Woodbridge Bingham, eldest of Senator Hiram Bingham's (Conn.) seven sons, descendant of three colonial governors; to Ursula Wolcott Griswold, descendant of four Connecticut governors. She is the granddaughter of the late John Sloane, and the late Matthew Griswold; great-granddaughter of Gov. Roger G. Griswold; great-great...
No other monarch of a great power is so important to his subjects as the Emperor of Japan. To them he is a descendant of the Sun Goddess, and thus actually possessed of Godhood. Moreover, only one dynasty has reigned* and still reigns in Japan. All spiritual and temporal good...