Word: descendantal
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Despite his public image of lounge-lizard torpor, he doted on work. This accounts for his staggering creative output: he composed the music and lyrics for 281 songs, wrote 27 plays, a novel, five books of short stories and two volumes of autobiography. Amazingly, he could not read music. He...
West Germany's Bundeswehr, descendant of the once mighty Wehrmacht, is filled with slovenly, long-haired draftees on 15-month hitches. As for the U.S. Seventh Army, it has been more conspicuous during the past two years for its racial battles in Frankfurt than its prowess in maneuvers. Britain...
Still, as a descendant of a prominent Massachusetts family that included Emerson's fellow transcendentalist, Margaret Fuller, Bucky in 1913 became a fifth-generation Harvard man. Within two years he had been thrown out twice -the second and final time for running off to New York to blow his...
No doubt Goncourt would have been pleased to find how durable this class of sexual object turned out to be. Pink and proletarian, tousled, complaisant and rather nitwitted, she persisted as the Ideal Mistress (counterpart to the Fatal Woman) well into the 20th century. Her ancestors are the nymphs of...
Sir / I think it is quite fitting that Jay Cooper, the descendant of a Confederate general, is now the mayor of Prichard, Ala. [Oct. 16].