Word: grandson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Patent Office in Washington announced that patent No. 2,204,004 had been granted to Elihu Root 3rd, 36-year-old grandson of the onetime Secretary of War and Secretary of State, and a graduate of Hamilton College who is now a free-lance engineer in Springfield, Vt. The patent: an optical device for taking minute and precise measurements for use in the machine-tool industry...
After spending a night in a St. Louis jail, Alben William Barkley Truitt, 18-year-old grandson of the Vice President, was released to continue his hitchhiking jaunt from a construction job in Alaska to Paducah, Ky. Police had picked him up on a downtown street carrying a loaded .32-cal. pistol. He had found the pistol, said Truitt, and was merely trying to sell it to buy food. The state refused to prosecute, on the grounds that Missouri law permits peaceful interstate travelers to be armed...
...Boston's No. 1 citizen, Charles Francis Adams; grandnephew of Henry Adams; great-great-great-grandson of President John Adams...
Citation: "Editor, learned lawyer, able executive, experienced statesman, public-spirited citizen, governor of the state of Illinois, great-grandson of the ninth president of Hampden-Sydney College...
...hero of Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood, a red-neck fanatic who plans to create "the Church Without Christ," is one of the most unlikely dullards ever to grumble through an American novel. The grandson of a fundamentalist preacher who was always harping on hell. Haze Motes feels that if he could abolish the idea of Jesus, there would be no need to worry about sin. Shouting from the hood of his dilapidated Essex, Motes proclaims that "there was no Fall because there was nothing to fall from and no Redemption because there was no Fall . . . Nothing...