Word: descendantal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Mary Ann Payne, descendant of early Virginia settler, Sir Robert Payne, whose forefathers landed in England at the time of King William I, able conqueror; to James Blanchard Clews, head of the banking firm of Henry Clews & Co., founded by his uncle, the late Henry Clews.
*Despatches were meagre concerning these "dragons," but doubtless the flyers had met the expedition under Jesse Metcalf, Manhattan woolens manufacturer, which sailed for Komodo last spring (TIME, March 22 SCIENCE), to capture the large lizard called "boeaja darat" by the Dutch, "land crocodile" by the English. Nearly extinct, this creature...
Charles MacVeagh, U. S. Ambassador to Japan, puissant barrister, Manhattan aristocrat, became suspect last week of being a descendant of the famed "Wise Men of Gotham." The most celebrated of their acts of wisdom was dipping water with a sieve at midnight to catch the moon.
Roscoe Platt Conkling-for three weeks every scandal-nosing news cub has leered as he mouthed that name. Mr. Conkling is a roving gas engineer who plays the violin. Mrs. Sidney Erskine Brewster, petite and 26, did not guard the letters he wrote her with discretion. Mr. Brewster, 29, was...
Lord Chesterfield gave his name to a cigaret; Robert Burns to a cigar. English royalty brought no action because the name of Queen Victoria's consort was borrowed for a frock coat. George Washington is godfather to a kind of coffee; Abraham Lincoln to an automobile. Why then should...