Word: descendantal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pope Pius XI is not held more sanctified by Roman Catholics than is the Emperor Hirohito by pious Japanese. His Holiness claims to be no more than the divinely delegated and elected viceregent of Christ. His Majesty claims to be divinely begotten descendant of Japan's Sun Goddess, and...
Engaged. Elisabeth Wyatt of Manhattan, descendant of Van Rensselaer patroons, popular amateur dancer who appeared professionally in Oh Kay; to William A. Russell, Boston scion.
Died. Noel Morris, 24, direct descendant of the late Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, son of Dave Hennen Morris, Manhattan barrister & corporation official; by suicide; in Manhattan. Earlier in the same evening Son Morris had heard Tannhaüser at the Metropolitan, had written in his diary: "Tannhaüser wasn'...
Campaigning for one's relatives or their party, or their opponents' party, is different. Most sons, daughters, nephews, nieces, grandchildren, are glad to do that. In the present campaign, many a famed descendant has been active or at least visible. Grandson Arthur Smith Jr., aged 30 months, sang "Sidewalks of...
Some salve to Dutch sensibilities has been the ownership of the Press and News. For the Press passed, in 1911, into the hands of able, blunt Judge Lynn John Arnold, who published it for the Clark family (Singer Sewing Machines) of Cooperstown. Young, rich Stephen Carlton Clark had married Susan...