Word: genealogist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Lyon Gardiner Tyler grew up to be a historian, genealogist and president of Virginia's College of William & Mary from 1888 to 1919. His first wife died in 1921 and in 1923, aged 70. he married 35-year-old Sue Ruffin. On the difference between the world into which their grandfather was born and the one in which they will die, Lyon Gardiner Tyler's two sons by his second marriage had last week not yet begun to speculate, being respectively nine and five years...
...Author? Phi Beta Kappa coal-miner, society reporter (New York Herald), Genealogist James Branch Cabell has written some 18 volumes about the inhabitants of Poictesme. fairyland of his heart's desire, drawn in such mind's-eye detail that he has made maps of it. Born in Richmond, Va., in 1879 ne still does most of his writing there. The biographer of Manuel does not concern himself with ordinary life or contemporary affairs, feels that "Art is a criticism of life only in the sense that prison breaking is a criticism of the penitentiary." Mildly claustropho-biac. his desk faces...
...London Evening News stated that the new Princess was not fourth in line but jointly third with her sister, Princess Elizabeth, quoted an opinion of the late famed Genealogist John Horace Round that the law specifically states that the throne shall go to the eldest son, does not specifically state that it shall go to the eldest daughter in case of a girl. Other papers taking it up, called for an Act of Parliament to fix the exact status of the newborn baby...