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Word: descendantal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both Mrs. Hoover and Mrs. Chiang are U. S. college graduates-the former from Leland Stanford, the latter from Wellesley. Mrs. Chiang is younger than Mrs. Hoover, and it is no disparagement to say that her own family, the great House of Soong, is more potent. Mrs. Chiang's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Potent Mrs. Chiang | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

Married. Mildred Barclay Vander Poel 'of Manhattan, descendant of famed Colonial Dutchmen; and Sherburn Merrill Becker Jr., of Manhattan, descendant of Thomas Danforth, Colonial Governor of Massachusetts; in Manhattan.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 26, 1928 | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

It was not his first visit to the U. S. nor his first performance in Redemption. Moissi was one of the troupe of German players who came here a year ago with Reinhardt to perform A Midsummer Night's Dream in German, as well as other lovely and pretentious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Qualities of Moissi | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

The first, lasting from eight to eleven in the morning, informed the Imperial Ancestors that their descendant had now assumed his full Imperial Station. The second ceremony - of chief interest to Occidentals on account of the chair - culminated at 3 p. m. and was, in essence, simply a proclamation by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Emperor Enthroned | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

Married. Duke Nicholas of Leuchtenberg, 32, descendant of famed families of Beauharnais (France), Romanowsky (Russia); to Ella Miller, hairdresser's maid of Munich; in Munich.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 19, 1928 | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

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