Word: heir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...partridge, vegetables, dessert, cheese and two bottles of Burgundy. He was a Gallic sentimentalist: cartoonists loved to draw him as a transparent body with half-a-dozen hearts. In politics he stood left of center, where the heart belongs, the leader of the Radical Socialists. In statesmanship he fell heir to Briand's mantle; he preached the gospel of a United States of Europe, but his wise, rotund and sentimental words were lost in the smashing tread of the Brownshirt goosestep...
Tradition and Ideas. From Peter the Great, from Suvorov, who carried Russia's flag across the Alps, from Kutuzov, who beat Napoleon, the thread of traditional reverence for the cannon ran directly to Voronov. He was a product of Red training, but he took pride in being heir to Russia's rich martial tradition, and he tried to inspire his aides with this pride. He would sit for long hours bulked behind his desk -all 6 ft. 5 and 225 Ib. of him -quietly talking to his officers...
...Dartmouth), a sea tour as a snotty (midshipman) before and during World War I shaped him in his family's marine tradition. A childhood friendship produced his Duchess and his Queen, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, a gentle-born commoner. They have not yet produced a son; the heir, Princess Elizabeth, comes of royal age (18) next month. Her sister, Princess Margaret Rose, is 13. They are a happy family...
Libby Holman, blues-singing widow of the late tobacco heir Zachary Smith Reynolds, asked the Manhattan trustees of her eleven-year-old son Christopher Smith Reynolds' $7,000,000 estate to release $435,183.57 for the purpose of building him a "suitable and attractive" house...
Until last month, Baroda was a model among Indian states. The old Maharaja, the late great Sayaji Rao, Gaekwar of Baroda, put through more social legislation than any other native prince could boast. He made his grandson and heir, 35-year-old Maharaja Pratap Singh Gaekwar, study statecraft from childhood, taught him to admire progress and respect...