Word: descent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duchess of Windsor, years ago in Washington when she was the wife of an impecunious U. S. Navy officer, used to send over her seamstress to copy Mrs. Gordon's gowns, by permission, when the latter would return from Paris with another trunkful. Of aristocratic Dutch descent, the U. S. Minister's wife, nee Vandergrift, has many friends, some relatives in The Netherlands...
When Congress wants to stage a celebration it has an infallible formula: the whole thing is put in the hands of Representative Sol Bloom. Born 67 years ago in Pekin, Ill., of Polish-Jewish descent, reared in San Francisco, Sol had developed into a Manhattan real-estate man and music publisher before Tammany Hall, sensing his peculiar talents, elected him to Congress. For the past 14 years his Neanderthal forehead, nose and chin have distinguished him in Congress. So have his activities...
Invented by Scotch shepherds, golf in the U.S. has been inherited by many Italian day laborers' sons, who caddied on the courses their fathers tended. Guldahl is the first ex-caddie of Norwegian descent to develop top-flight golfing talent. Reared in Texas, Guldahl's talents in the past have sometimes seemed misplaced. After his tragic putt in 1933 which, if it had gone into the cup, would have made him a national celebrity, he speedily lost prestige. In 1935 he failed even to make a living out of golf, took to selling automobiles and working...
Hans Bartsch, Berlin theatrical producer who owns the Central European rights to Dodsworth, wrote to the U. S. agent of the author and the dramatist of the play, asking for a letter certifying that they were of Aryan descent. Without it, the Reich Theatre Council would not let the show appear in Germany. Author and dramatist replied to Producer Bartsch as follows...
...solemn moaning fills the warm air. It oozes into Lowell study rooms and library. It jumps the street over to Winthrop's lighted cram centers. Inhuman, the sound swells and fades, changes catch with a sobbing descent, or rasps anew to tortured heights. Angry heads appear, and irritated voices dispute with the sound, imploring or threatening...