Word: heir
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Wily, wicked Volpone (the Fox) is a Venetian magnifico who pretends to be dying and to be deliberating on who shall be his heir. A crowd of voracious hopefuls rise to the bait, heap gifts upon him, satiate his own love of gold. With the help of his parasite, Mosca (the Fly), Volpone performs ever more devilish hoaxes upon his would-be heirs. In the end, duped and dupers alike are punished...
...fourth child, fourth daughter (the others: Beatrix, 9, Irene, 7, Margriet, 4); at Soestdijk Palace, The Netherlands. Weight: 6 Ibs. 10 oz. Daughter's birth rated a 51-gun salute, a quarter-hour's pealing of church bells (a son-who would have been the first male heir to the throne in 62 years-would rate 101 guns, a half-hour's bell-ringing...
...then he got interested in Alleghany. Young needed more cash than he wanted to risk himself, so he wrote a letter to an associate, Allan P. Kirby, the shy heir to a multimillion-dollar fortune made by his father in the F. W. Woolworth Co. Young told Kirby that he had a good proposition lined up, and Kirby came through with $3,000,000. The obliging Mr. Kirby, now president of Alleghany Corp., has been the financial angel in many of Young's deals ever since. It is actually Kirby's holdings, some 550,000 shares of Alleghany...
Report to Saint Peter brings the young Van Loon, heir to all the ages, as far as his twelfth year. At this point he found his boyhood hero in the story of a medieval minnesinger. "I never quite got over the feeling that all women . . . longed to be the heroines of one of those romantic episodes which were common incidents in the lives of the medieval troubadours. It was only a great many years later and at cost of a terrific wear and tear upon my emotions and upon my bank account that I learned that the troubadour business...
Divorced. Lord Ashley, 46, heir to the Earldom of Shaftesbury; by his second Lady,* the former Mile. Françoise Soulier, 36; after ten years of marriage, two children; in London...