Word: descent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most famed native of the Virgin Islands yet to appear on the world scene, Camille Pissarro was born a Danish citizen in 1830. Pissarro's father, a French Jew of Portuguese descent, had done quite well for himself as a hardware dealer on the island of St. Thomas. He sent little Camille to Paris to school, brought him back to the Islands to make an ironmonger of him. Camille Pissarro stuck it out until 1852, when he ran away to Venezuela to become an artist. Three years later he was in Paris and had discovered the painter whom above...
Coached by Charlie Proctor, former Olympic skier from Dartmouth, the Crimson skiers spent last Sunday practicing on the tricky corners which provide the obstacles on the Wildcat descent. Feeling confident in their knowledge of the run, Captain Adams Carter and his mates hope to place well up among 47 skiers already entered in the event...
...Smith's description of the New Deal as Communistic was a descent to Hearstian demagoguery. Bitterness and wisecracks ran away with...
...late Lewis Baker Warren left a bequest of $1,000,000 to Yale University to be used for scholarships to students "who shall be the sons of white Christian parents and Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian or Teutonic descent, both of whom were citizens of the United States and were born in America...
Though Clara Weatherwax spent her infancy in a papoose basket and though her name looks too good to be true, she is no made-over Choctaw or Czech. She claims descent from Roger Williams and 14 Revolutionary ancestors; her grandfather was a pioneer on the Northwest coast of which she writes. But her violent Marxian melodrama will never be recommended by the Daughters of the American Revolution. (The one Daughter in the book is a throwback, impoverished into sympathy for her Red neighbors.) Marching! Marching! obeys the law of Marxian fiction in having no hero but half-a-dozen protagonists...