Word: descendantal
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Official records describe His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor Yoshihito, as the lineal descendant of the first and prehistoric Emperor Jimmu of Japan (circa 660-585 B. C.). Though the Emperor Jimmu is still believed to be the fifth in descent from the Sun-Goddess, an error was discovered last week...
Henry Fielding is as different from Samuel Richardson as "Tom Jones" is from "Pamela". Fielding was the son of Lieutenant Edmund Fielding a descendant of the Earl of Desmond. In this connection there is a rather interesting anecdote. The Earl of Desmond belonged to a branch of the Denbigh family...
Married. Basilia L. Hawthorne, direct descendant of Revolutionary General Nathanael Greene, and related to Nathaniel Hawthorne; to Livingston Welch, descendant of Peter Von Brugh Livingston, president of the first provisional congress; in Manhattan.
Doctor Ingram is the 108th Bishop of London, and when at home lives in the building which his predecessors have inhabited for over 1300 years. The prelate of the English Church is a direct descendant of the lords of Fulham, who were high among the nobility of the land in...
All last month a small young woman whose chest expansion exceeds that of mighty Jack Demp-sey- traveled from city to city in the U. S. Every night but Sunday she performed a strange rite. Entering a small cubicle engaged for her in advance, she closed the door, molded a...