Word: descent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stands watching Meyer that afternoon were several men who had driven racing cars when they were younger. Of these the richest and most noted was a gentleman of French descent with a spike of a mustache, a lined face, thick neck, and popping black eyes-Louis Chevrolet, godfather of an automobile...
...imminent nuptials. Said one of them: "Now 71-year-old Thomas Jefferson, hardy as his fathers, will get him an heir to carry on the splendid tradition of his family." Said other prophets: "It is unthinkable that the Jeffersons will be permitted to continue the line of their male descent for the furtherance of moving pictures...
...will regard the negotiations with Serbia as a camouflage behind which Italy is planning a sudden descent on our shores...
...easy tongue of a society man. His English was almost entirely free from guttural impediments. His manner was extraordinarily flexible for a German of the old Junker caste. It fitted exactly the known record and professed aims of this envoy whom German Nationalists viewed with alarm for his descent, whom German Conservatives thought too young for so important a post, but whom German Democrats endorsed entirely and whom Foreign Minister Stresemann sent over despite all opposition...
...majority of the faithful. They declare themselves ready to negotiate with the Roman Church . . . on a basis of equality. . . . How could she tolerate an iniquitous attempt to drag the truth?divinely revealed truth?into a compromise? . . . If we admit this possibility, we must also say that the descent of the Holy Ghost on the apostles, that the permanence of the Holy Ghost in the Church, and even the teaching of Jesus Christ, lost all influence in the world many centuries ago. To affirm this is blasphemy...