Word: descendantal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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To Haakon: "Gratified at the news of the safe arrival of Captain Amundsen and his associates in Alaska, I desire to offer to Your Majesty and people of Norway my congratulations on the success which attended the bold undertaking of this hardy and intrepid descendant of the Vikings. It is...
"Rockman! Rockman!" screamed a very old lady in the centre stand. She was Mrs Susan Sherley, 95, who saw Aristides win the first Kentucky Derby in 1875. A princess,¹ an alderman² who writes poetry, a descendant³ of a famous merchant, an internationally notorious gambler,4 a yachtsman...
Judge Toereky prudently refrained from prying into the nature of these "motives." Instead he called another prisoner, a dapper little man with his hair cut in the German fashion, a nervous but determined young man, who clenched and brandished a cane in one hand while he gesticulated with the other...
John Adams Abbott, Bostonian, descendant of President John Adams, odist of his class at Harvard ('25), recently jailed at Rome charged with "speaking disrespectfully" of Premier Mussolini (TIME, May 10), was released last week by the examining magistrate, who dismissed the charge.
John Adams Abbott, Bostonian, descendant of John Adams, graduate of Gorton, odist of his class at Harvard ('25), stood in line last week to purchase a ticket which would admit him to the Vatican. One Salvatore Astrologo, guide, jostled him or was jostled. High words in several languages ensued. Later...