Word: grandson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...William's will, filed for probate, disposed of a $2,500,000 estate with large bequests-$200,000 each to two daughters; $200,000 to Grandson William P. Mulock, Canada's Postmaster General; $80,000 to other kin. To his old protege Canada's Prime Minister, Sir William left...
They tried to make the hillside home a backwater of the times. But war intruded. First, from the Russian front came telegrams: Victoria's only son and Grace's grandson had both been killed in action. Then, one Sunday last September, an American paratrooper dropped into their garden during the battle for the Nijmegen Bridge. Shells screamed around the hillside house. Soon, some polite British officers called, telling them they were in danger and had better leave...
...TIME'S apologies to Grandson Thaxter for confusing his grandmother, Poet Celia, with Actress Phyllis, a distant relative. In her day Celia Thaxter was famed for her poems for children (notably The Sandpiper), her sketches of the grey New Hampshire coast and her summer garden "salon" on the Isles of Shoals, where her father, an exlighthouse-keeper, kept a popular hotel...
...unite two famed families of Pretenders. The bride-young and charming-was the daughter of the Infante Don Carlos (brother-in-law of the late King Alfonso), and first Spanish princess to be married in her native land since Spain went republican. The tall, mustachioed groom was the great-grandson of Dom Pedro II, second (and last) of Brazil's brief line of Portuguese emperors. When the second Dom Pedro abdicated the Brazilian throne in favor of a republic, his family lived in France until Brazil relented in 1920, welcomed home the house of Bragança. His great...
After You! In Denver, Hyman Meyers, trying to release his two-year-old grandson from a locked bathroom, tore the knob off the door, ran outside, chucked a rock through a window, clambered into the wrong room, climbed out, tossed another brick, made it, tugged off the rest of the knob on the bathroom door, had to be rescued by the police...