Word: descents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Liechtenstein is Prince Franz, 77. Two years ago Prince Franz married Frau Elsa von Eross, née Baroness Guttman of Vienna. He had married her secretly in 1921 in Salzburg, Austria. Because she was a commoner he could not make public the marriage. She is wealthy, of Jewish descent...
Aghast, Speaker Edward Algernon Fitzroy, himself of Royal blood (i. e. of illegitimate Stuart descent as implied by his name Fitzroy or Son-of-a-King), warned Mr. Kirkwood that he would be severely dealt with...
...story of a man's rise from a $35-a-week job at a stockyard to the position of king of bootleggers and his subsequent descent from this lofty position to the death house forms the plot of this picture. Few if any of the underworld's methods of self-advancement could have been left out in the telling of this tale. Crossing and double-crossing are apparently part of the daily business of the gunman. Of course, and enterprising reporter is also woven, into the story and, as usual, is "put on the spot" when he "learns too much...
...architect, an alderman, a man of wealth is clever little Purchaser Bossom. Like Sculptor Epstein he is of Semitic descent. His wealth derived from his conception and industrious execution of the idea of building skyscrapers like a graduated pile of boxes with the smallest on top - the "set back'' style to provide air and light. He designed the Seaboard National Bank in New York (Seaboard Pres ident Samuel Bayne is his father-in-law), the Magnolia Petroleum Building in Dallas, Tex. Other important Bossom commissions in the U. S. included the restoration of Fort Ticonderoga for ex-Congress...
Mechanic Paul F. Kassay, tall and blond, learned to like the new workman who had been placed alongside him in the great Goodyear-Zeppelin dirigible dock at Akron, Ohio. This newcomer was of Hungarian descent and could understand Kassay's native Magyar. He, too, had "certain ideas" about this business of the Navy's new dirigible, Akron, largest in the world, which they and hundreds of others were building. High on the catwalks, just under the dome of the dock (which is so enormous that rainfall sometimes occurs inside), was an excellent place to talk privately while innumerable rivets were...