Word: grandson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...curious hung out of windows, perched on roofs and climbed the trees to get a better view. At the cathedral's entrance, the limousines disgorged the auto city's great. From a maroon Lincoln limousine, Clara Bryant Ford stepped out, leaning on the arm of her grandson, Henry. Inside St. Paul's, in a sealed casket, lay the pinch-faced, fragile remains of her husband...
...young (30), pretty helpmeet and first cousin once removed (Paul is a grandson, Queen Frederika a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria's daughter Victoria) has worked hard to overcome original Greek impressions that she was a flippant pro-German society matron. When grandfather Kaiser Wilhelm died, German-born Frederika* ostentatiously wore a bright red hat, let it be known that she wanted no offers of condolence. She has learned Greek, turned her charms on wealthy and influential Greeks, made an enthusiastic admirer of South Africa's Field Marshal Smuts. Last week the Greek Royalist press said...
...year-old Maharaja shaves and cuts his hair, in violation of the Sikh ban on removing any hair from the body. But now His Highness, seeing Indian independence grow near, is trying to gain the friendship of the Sikh community. Recently he celebrated the baptism of his young grandson, who drank sugar liquid mixed by five Sikh priests, chanted Sikh hymns, and swore never to shave or have a haircut...
...grandson of U.S. ambassadors (to Japan and Italy), Link MacVeagh gave no early sign that he would follow the family calling. Educated at Groton and Harvard, his interests were literary and classical. For ten years, as a highbrow publisher (the Dial Press), his heart was in the highlands of Greece. Commuting between Manhattan and Connecticut, he read Ulysses' voyages instead of Dow-Jones averages...
Last week at a royal pitso in Maseru, capital of South Africa's craggy, mountainous Basutoland, Victoria's great-grandson George VI celebrated Moshoeshoe Day (Moshesh's anniversary) by pinning medals on the dazzling, crocodile-and-lion-adorned blankets of a host...