Word: descent
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...trust this Museum will stand as a monument for what Germany has contributed to the culture of the world, and that it will be a permanent symbol of the friendship between America and the old Fatherland. As an American of German descent, I am proud to be able to assist in this worthy cause. Very cordially yours. ADOLPHUS BUSCH...
...speaker began by describing the old Irish squire who was often of English descent, but was thoroughly Irish in other ways. He stood against the measure to abolish the Irish Parliament which was passed only by the worst kind of bribery. The abolition of the Parliament injured the landlord by sending him to London, where he tried to live up to the scale set by the English aristocracy, and in a few years ran into debt beyond recovery. The tenant supplied all the capital while the landlord merely held the position of rent-taker and did nothing in return. Because...
...musical comedy in two acts and a prologue, and the scene is laid in the Plymouth Colony in Pilgrim times. The plot is based on the adventures of two young Americans, John Beacon Winton, of Boston, and James McGraw, of "Anywhere." In the prologue Winton boasts of his "Mayflower" descent. By means of a wishing stone, the two men are transported back to 1620 at Plymouth, and meet their own ancestors, face to face. Winston finds that his forefather, of whom he has been boasting, is a common porter and an "undesirable citizen." He is shocked, and attempts to make...
...ZOOLOGICAL CLUB. Discussion of Montgomery's "Analysis of Racial Descent in Animals." Messrs, Copeland, Long, Conser, and Kelly. Zoological Museum, Room 4, Fourth Floor...
...ZOOLOGICAL CLUB. Discussion of Montgomery's "Analysis of Racial Descent in Animals." Messrs. Copeland, Long, Conser, and Kelly. Zoological Museum, Room 4, Fourth Floor...