Word: grandson
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Famille Poisson" takes place in the time of Louis Fourteenth, and deals with a family of actors, father, son and grandson. The grandfather, who is a very old man, has renounced the stage and become infatuated over the subject of religion. He refuses to allow his grandson to go upon the stage and tries to turn him into a soldier. But the young man, who has wonderful dramatic genius, escapes from the army, deceives his family, deludes his grandfather, and by a clever trick takes his father's place on the stage of the Theatre Francais. After an outburst...
...about 1708. At his death his library was bought by Nathaniel Shaw, a wealthy parishioner, from whom if passed through his granddaughter. Polly Shaw, to her husband, Ephraim Woodbridge, the seventh pastor of the same church. Mr. Mitchell, who gives the book to the Harvard Library, is a great-grandson of Ephraim Wood-bridge. It would probably be difficult to find in the College Library another volume containing so many early New England publications of extreme rarity...
...lecturer is a grandson of Richard Cobden, the famous English free-trader, and is probably the most widely known binder and printer of books in the United Kingdom. He is connected with the Doves-Bindery of London...
...thousands of its young men were bleeding and dying for it. It is credibly reported that at a very critical moment the Queen of England said to her prime minister: 'My Lord, you must understand that I shall sign no paper which means war with the United States.' The grandson of that illustrious woman is sitting with us here...
...degree and a Harvard man, the freedom of the Union. He welcomed the Prince as a representative of the Hohenzollerns, whose name in history has been illustrious in peace and war; as a brother of the emperor, "who is walking resolutely in the footsteps of his fathers;" as a grandson and son of the founders of the German Empire, and as admiral of the German navy. Major Higginson spoke of the debt America owes to Germany for her great figures in literature, for her great musicians, for her industrial achievements, and chiefest of all for the rich and many sided...