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Word: heir (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this and a lot more is hung on the sort of story Fred Allen used to contrive for the dramatic half of each week's broadcast: Fred Floogle (Mr. Allen), a Flea Circus Diaghilev, falls heir to his uncle's multimillion fortune, which attorneys have managed to reduce to five chairs and a pool table. By the time Floogle learns that one of the chairs contains a considerable stash of cash, he is heavily in debt and under suspicion of murdering the uncle, and the chairs are all over town. His search for them involves visits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Apr. 23, 1945 | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

...unfortunate hereditary malady") chased his sister around the Women's Bible School with a knife. "Being a good law-abiding Christian," said the cook, "certainly does break down a man's patience in the end." But the Presbyterian Espeys remained patient to the end. To son-&-heir John J. Espey, these scenes of Shanghai childhood seemed nothing out-of-the-way - until his parents brought him home to the U.S. in 1930 (he now teaches English at Los Angeles Occidental College). Minor Heresies is a gay and graceful account of his exotic boyhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Childhood in China | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

Charges by Ilya Ehrenberg in the Pravda, official Moscow newspaper, stating that Heinrich Bruening, professor of Government, was "the Fuehrer of the German Catholics" and had put forth "his candidacy as the heir to Hitler" were termed by Professor Bruening Sunday evening in an interview with the SERVICE NEWS as "utter nonsense--every word--from beginning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bruening Denies Pravda Charges of Being Hitler Heir; Ex-German Chancellor Will Not Return to Deutschland | 3/27/1945 | See Source »

...with dollars and ideas. Supplying a heavy piece of change was slender, soft-spoken Del Webb, ex-minor-league pitcher who 16 years ago moved to Phoenix, Ariz., parlayed a saw and hammer into a million-dollar construction business. The other big moneyman was Marine Corps Captain Dan Topping, heir to a tin-plate fortune and owner of the Brooklyn Football Tigers.* The man with the ideas was baseball's brilliant screwball, redheaded Colonel Leland Stanford ("Larry") MacPhail -who aging ex-Boss Ed Barrow once said would buy the Yankees "over my dead body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Deal | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

Married. Walter P. Chrysler Jr., 35, ex-Navy lieutenant, wavy-haired heir to one-quarter of the Chrysler motor millions, lord of a horsy 1,000-acre Warrenton, Va. plantation with a 72-room manor house and 70 outbuildings; and tall, svelte Jean Esther Outland, 23, pretty blond gym teacher at Virginia's College of William and Mary; he for the second time, she for the first; in Norfolk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 22, 1945 | 1/22/1945 | See Source »

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