Word: descendantal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stuyvesant Fish died in New York of heart disease. A directors' meeting of the National Park Bank was assembling. As Mr. Fish stepped across the threshold of the board room, he fell dead. So terminated the career of one of the country's great financial leaders and railroad...
Louis Pasteur, the father of modern medicine, brought scorn upon himself from the older members of the French Academy of Medicine when he explained to them the discoveries he had made through his microscope. Nevertheless he continued his experiments for fifteen years and proved his theories so successfully by actual...
John Quincy Adams, paged in the Army and Navy Club in Washington, turned out to be a Major of Marines from Quantico, Va. Robert Emmett, lineal descendant of the great Irish patriot, was found to be a lieutenant-commander in the Navy, stationed at Washington.
In "La Dame, Aux Camelias', Dumas fils wrote the play of his youth, a play hot with insurgent romanticism, promising in showing a masterful sense of situations obviously adapted for the stage, and having sentimentality to spare. The validity of purification through love is undisputed . . . in the theatre. And Marguerite...
This letter was dated 1372; the university ceased to exist early in the sixteenth century. From this information, aided by Talma's fable, Senor Alvarotez has deduced the following theory. The bell-ringer, no doubt, was a descendant of the one who received the letter. Even after the university had...