Word: heir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...union a quavering and tragic Phil Murray, until then Lewis' steadfast friend. Now Lewis had no friends around him, only sycophants. He had few friends anywhere, only worshipers or enemies. He had maintained his authority with his goon squads. He was the king. There was no heir apparent; he had let no one rise that far. This was something he might have mused upon, thinking of Padway's "There will always be a U.M.W...
...politicos saw more significance in the worried undertone. Plainly the P.M. had been alarmed by the Party's recent setbacks. He was appealing to the plain people for support. And in retaining the reluctant St. Laurent in his Cabinet, the P.M. was keeping close at hand a potential heir apparent from the key province of Quebec...
...DOULOUREUX, "one of the most painful conditions, to which the flesh is heir," can be relieved by alcohol injections...
...rich, British-born, Park Avenue socialite named Mrs. Mabel Seymour Greer told him of a girlhood indiscretion. She had borne a child out of wedlock in Boston more than half a century before. The father: Dr. Willard B. Segur. In Armbruster's opinion her child and only heir was the doctor's adopted son, Harold Alfred Segur...
...makes the city hum. Sixteen Thousand Francs is about a German who steals money off a dead French officer in World War I. Fifteen years later, hunted by Hitler and still haunted by his crime, he flees to France to refund the money-only to find that the sole heir is a hard-boiled French Nazi...