Word: grandchildren
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handsome son, Lieut.-Colonel Oscar von Hindenburg, whose brunette wife, about to bear a daughter, had the hall porter on her right. A telephone girl sat with bespectacled State Secretary Dr. Otto Meissner who had very little to say. Across the table from Old Paul his well-brought-up grandchildren gravely discussed engines with the President's chauffeur. Everyone was given a pre-Christmas present. All the servants were told they could have the whole day Christmas off. Toward the end of the lunch President von Hindenburg dozed, woke up with a jerk...
...could not at first believe reports that Trotsky was going to lecture in Denmark," wrote Aage, "but I now see it is true. . . . Has Denmark forgotten that Trotsky was a member of the [Soviet] Government that killed the two sons and the grandchildren of the Danish Princess who be came Empress [Maria Feodorovna of Russia...
...same life will not soon again be so gay and exciting as it was last week for good, grey Rev. Wolfgang Schanze, pastor of Coburg's high-spired Moritzkirche, one-time tutor to the bride, whose privilege it was to unite in holy matrimony two great-grandchildren of British Queen Victoria...
...bothered the neighbors who thought Mrs. Templeton might treat her old mother more generously. It did not greatly disturb Mrs. Harris or Mrs. Templeton. Old Mrs. Harris remembered her big house in Tennessee whence the family had moved West. She took a quiet interest in the doings of her grandchildren, Victoria, Ronald, Adelbert. She was glad when Mrs. Rosen came over from next door to have a chat. When Mrs. Harris felt that she was going to die. she accepted this fact also with the wise fortitude which her daughter and granddaughter would have to await their own senility...
Justice Jennings Bailey was dubious about his right to remove Trustee McLean because "I don't think the purpose of the will [of the late John Roll McLean] was merely to preserve the estate for the grandchildren. I think it was as much for the benefit of his son." Both sides met last week in judge's chambers, emerged with a compromise. Fun-loving "Ned" McLean would resign as publisher of the Post, renounce all voice in its management or disposal. For the balance of the estate he would remain co-trustee with American Security & Trust Co. While...