Word: great-great-grandson
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...economics dawned two years ago on the fertile mind of a Boston school committeeman, Joseph Lee Jr. A Brahmin, blueblood, Harvard graduate, 40-year-old Joe Jr. is the eccentric liberal grandson of a founder of the Boston banking firm of Lee, Higginson & Co. and a great-great-grandson of Thomas H. Perkins, who turned down a Cabinet post as Secretary of the Navy under George Washington because he owned more ships than the Navy did. His father, the late Joe Lee Sr., was a famed humanitarian who once made a pilgrimage to the home of Leo Tolstoy...
...Manhattan from Lisbon came handsome, Hungarian-born George H. Mendelssohn, 29, looking rather more like a U. S. collegiate than the great-great-grandson of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. Before going off to join the U. S. Army, Emigre Mendelssohn confided that in his own musical composition he stuck to jazz -"classical jazz...
Died. John Clarkson Jay, 61, president of Manhattan's portly Fifth Avenue Bank, onetime president of Fierce-Arrow and board chairman of Maxwell Motor Car Co., great-great-grandson of first Chief Justice John Jay; of a coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan...
Fortnight ago, on the fat Marshal's 48th birthday, the Hamburger Fremdenblatt claimed that the father of all the Görings was none other than Duke Albert of Brunswick, great-grandson of Henry the Lion, great-great-grandson of Henry II of England, whose daughter Matilda married into the German royal house of Saxony. To welcome "Iron Hermann" into the ranks of royalty, the city of Brunswick, where Henry the Lion is buried, sent him a replica of that ancestor's statue...
...beginning there was a namelessness with the beautiful shape of an egg. It divided, and became heaven and earth. And it divided again and became male and female. These in their turn begat Izanagi and Izanami, who begat the Sun Goddess, who had a great-great-grandson named Jimmu Tenno, who descended to rule the earth...