Word: descendantal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The central figure is an elderly English novelist off for a holiday in Venice. In the surrounding group are his recently acquired mistress; an effusive lady novelist; a direct descendant of Casanova; a lean clergyman and his equally bewildered wife?plus one or two minor folk. These chatter aimlessly about...
Died. Herbert Claibourne Pell. 73, distinguished descendant of the Pells of Pelham Manor (N. Y.), retired lawyer, father of Herbert Claibourne Pell Jr. (onetime Chairman of the N. Y. Democratic State Committee), and of Clarence C. Pell, famed U. S. racquet champion (see p. 35); at Manhattan, of apoplexy.
A collection of the rare editions of 35 early seventeenth century English poets has recently been given to the College Library, and is now on exhibition in the display cases of the Treasure Room. The gift was made in memory of Lionel de Jersey Harvard '15, a lineal descendant of...
She had been a social worker, a supporter of woman's rights. She is a descendant of five immigrants who came over on the Mayflower. Yet some of the New England aristocracy, not to mention the aristocracy of the South, last week felt that her ancestors must have come over...
At Muerren, famed Swiss resort, a descendant of the oldest Imperial House in the world twirled and pirouetted upon the ice. Baron Hayashi, onetime Japanese Ambassador to Britain, watched anxiously as the Imperial personage to whom he acts as tutor, cut figure-eights with joyful abandon. Meanwhile fashionable onlookers whispered...