Word: grandparental
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Patience does not lend itself easily to greatness. The social satire of Gilbert and Sullivan fades with every passing year, like a tintype of some long forgotten grandparent. The comedy of manners that is Patience with its mild jabs at the military and the intellectual alike seems pale and watered...
Sir: What a pity the Western culture is unlike the Oriental. The Chinese, who have for centuries held their elders in the highest esteem, have words regarding their aged: The house with an old grandparent harbors a jewel.
A problem that consistently confronts racist law makers in the question of defining who is "Negro" and who is "white." In general, two schools of "thought" prevail is the United States on this issue. In about nine states a Negro is anyone who had a grandparent who was a Negro...
Virginia provides an interesting example of racist legal gymnastics. Whites in that state can marry neither Negroes nor American Indians. In Virginia, a Negro is a person who has any Negro ancestor, and an American Indian is a person who had at least one Indian grandparent. If someone has one...
With heart attacks and strokes causing about half of all U.S. deaths, eight eminent physicians (including five past presidents of the American Heart Association*) issued last week a check list of danger signals. Their belief is that while medical science gropes for definitive measures, attention to these signals "will prolong...