Word: descent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles, Manhattan; they have upwards of 6.000 members; they hold meetings, collect dues, wear Nazi uniforms and sometimes drill in turnhallen; members of the League of Friends of the New Germany pledge: "I do not belong to any secret organization of any kind [Freemasons, etc.]. I am of Aryan descent, free of Jewish or colored racial traces"; their political ideal "is organically conceived and consequently the very antithesis of liberal Democratic ideas. Believing in the authority of leadership . . . we advocate a state of truly sovereign authority which dominates all the forces of the nation...
...males, 57 per cent were born in the United States of native parentage, and of the females 61 per cent. Of the foreign-born males there were 14 per cent, and of females, seven per cent. Of those native born of foreign parentage, the greatest proportion was of British descent, which was followed by the grouped countries Germany, Holland, and Switzerland...
...novel. Though she has been loved. she has never known love's madness. So she sets out to find Achilles on the Island of the Blest. Act I ends with movies showing a diving submarine and in Act II Helen uses an elevator to complete her descent to the netherworld. There the warrior-ghosts have taken on ectoplasmic shapes. Against their warning Achilles emerges, in white knee skirts, white mittens and a skin-tight sweater with a letter A on his chest. With Helen he shoots up out of Hades on the elevator...
...group of varsity ski team candidates last weekend over the new trail on North Uncanoonuo in Southern New Hampshire. He tried the candidates out on "Death Corner," a wide gash in the mountainside where the trail has a twist with reverse banking at the foot of a steep descent. Proctor had them practice stem and pure Christiana turns before they ended the day by a run in a blinding snow storm...
...prodigious oilmen not the least is J. (for Jean) Paul Getty of Los Angeles. He was born in Minneapolis. His father George was of Scottish descent, a man who began life with little money and died in 1930 leaving an estate valued at $21.000,000. Jean Paul went to the University of California, later to Oxford whence he was graduated in 1914. In 1915 Jean Paul, interested in philosophy, an athlete, a pianist, a speaker of eight languages, was an oil lease broker in Tulsa, Okla.. with not a penny of his father's money behind...