Word: grandson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winston Churchill II, almost-five-year-old grandson of the former Prime Minister, had his own idea of the meaning of the British elections. When his nurse asked him if he had heard about them, he replied: "Yes, I have a new grandpapa...
Divorced. Corporal Clifford S. Heinz Jr., 25, grandson of the late H. J. ("57 Varieties") Heinz; by Elizabeth Bald Heinz, 26, Baltimore socialite; after seven years of marriage, one son; in Los Angeles...
...13th Century, Kublai Khan, Emperor of China, conqueror of Burma and grandson of Genghis Khan, organized an invasion of Japan, lost most of his fleet and his army in the attempt...
Divorced. David Field Beatty, 2nd Earl Beatty, 40, Navy Commander, eldest son of Britain's late World War I Grand Fleet commander, grandson of Chicago's late Merchant Marshall Field; by Countess Beatty, Virginia-born, thrice-married Dorothy Power Hall Sands Beatty, 42; after eight years of marriage (no children); in London. Grounds: adultery...
Latin & Cock Feathers. Son of a Cornish doctor, grandson of famed Cornish Ichthyologist Jonathan Couch (History of the Fishes of the British Islands), Q received his first Latin at the age of seven ("I went home as one baptized into a cult"), in the Misses Harriet and Jemina Lutman's seminary, or "dame school." These "excellent ladies" also taught him Euclid and "globes," introduced him to Reading without Tears and Little Arthur's History of England. He learned by heart the questions & answers in the 48th edition of The Child's Guide to Knowledge, by a Lady...