Word: heir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quiet Surrey countryside, King Peter went for a quiet walk with his pretty wife, the former Princess Alexandra of Greece, who is expecting an heir to their vanishing throne...
...dirty tomato'' -to say nothing of the Cockney girls "in shapeless purple flannel blazers [and] pudding-bowl grey felt hats." The Squire and his family wondered what the world was coming to. "Poor Harefield is practically in the hands of the Jews," muttered the Belton son-&-heir. "There won't be a single gentleman in the Cabinet in five years," groused the Squire. "Well, I do hope my son-in-law and daughters-in-law will be our sort." murmured Mrs. Belton wistfully. "I suppose I'm a perfectly beastly snob," said her pretty daughter Elsa...
William Randolph Hearst Jr., 37, heir apparent to the Hearst publishing empire, is already vice president and director of Hearst Corp. and American Newspapers Inc., publisher of the New York Journal-American, and currently-with his second wife, Lorelle McCarver Hearst-one of Father Hearst's most favored war correspondents. His copy, lavishly displayed in Hearstpapers, is edited only by Father Hearst himself. Last week Hearst-reading students of syntax puzzled over this Junior-written and presumably Senior-edited passage in a cabled dispatch from London...
Archduke Felix, tall, thin, third-string heir to Austria-Hungary's vanished throne, bobbed up in Mexico City (first Habsburg to visit Mexico since his ancestor, the Emperor Maximilian, was shot there), denied that his visit was political, failed to get audiences with Mexico's President Avila Camacho. Russia's Ambassador Constantine Oumansky departed declaring that if he had his way Spanish would replace German as Austria's national tongue...
...Russian political experts were quartered in the turreted Hotel Torni, the plushy Societetshuset and the old Estonian Legation in swank Brunnsparken. They raced around Helsinki in Russian autos. Their boss was smart, rugged Colonel General Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov, Leningrad's Communist chief and Stalin's heir apparent. In the thick of last week's crisis, General Zhdanov suddenly zoomed off to Moscow, then zoomed back, presumably bringing Stalin's latest word to the Finns. What it might be Finns would soon find...