Word: forebearer
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...Breese of Yale in November of 1904, particularly given that the Harvard team won out in the end. The great great grandchildren of Joseph M. Cromwell are not quite as fortunate however—it’s now a matter of easily-searchable public record that their forebear was arrested for stealing a gold watch from Weld Boat House after being expelled from the law school in 1893.It’s easy, though, to wonder: so what? Does this information have any value to anyone apart from for voyeurs and curious genealogists? Well, maybe. Mr. Cromwell?...
...Kate Moss The breezy 98-pounder became the world's dominant beauty, reflecting the most dramatic change in tastes since the arrival of her waifish forebear Twiggy. But Moss was also vexed by controversy, being blamed for prompting anorexia among admiring girls...
...strongest link with the colonial past," he says. "Preserving them, we preserve history; we preserve art." And sometimes, the subjects of art. From her window, Grandma Moses painted the Bakers' barn where it once stood in upstate New York, on land, it so happens, belonging to a Yankee Babcock forebear, six generations back...
...1920s the Surrealists attempted to claim him as a forebear. Chagall demurred. He wanted no part of the Surrealist notion that art flowed from the dictates of the unconscious. What Chagall believed was that art flowed from his whole self, from his memories and desires. Let the world fly apart under his brush; he was always the master of his own revels...
...That's important to Wolf, who has often stumbled when he has gone off-brand, with flops like Mann and Machine (a cop partners with a cyborg), D.C. (Washington interns wrestle with politics and love) and Deadline (reporter solves crimes). So Dragnet resembles L&O as much as its forebear: more grisly murder cases, less slow-paced police grunt work and plenty of topical plots...