Word: descent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...article charged Cherington with "contempt" for Bostonians of Irish descent and for "professional politicians," and called him "another of the cult of New Deal economists...
...been living happily in the Melbourne suburb of Saint Kilda with his wife and two children. At Colombo two weeks ago, John Trench-Thiedemann was one of a mixed-blood deputation which waited on Spender, to ask that Australia limit the test for Eurasians to proof of their descent, without requiring "predominantly European features." Spender promised to see what could be done...
Such names had made the full descent to lower case; others had been borrowed intact, capitals and all. Prime Minister Gladstone, a busy traveler in his day, became a traveling bag. Prince 'Albert became a watch chain, a long coat and, among Australian beggars, a toe-rag worn in place of socks...