Word: heir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Nancy Traylor Souder, 29, wife of wealthy Kansas Oilman J. Robert Souder, ex-wife of Chicago Packinghouse Heir Nathan Burton Swift, and daughter of the late Melvin Traylor, organizer of the Bank for International Settlements and near-Presidential candidate in 1932; by falling or jumping from a Manhattan hotel window...
...said John Lewis in solemn basso. "We have to fight this war with human beings. Human beings are subject to all the ills to which the flesh is heir...
...captor was a Shawnee named Big Turtle. He carved a little turtle on Sala-thiel's breast, named him Little Turtle, made him his heir. In the Shawnee village were other white captives, and though Salathiel lived the life of an Indian for the most part, a captive white preacher taught him to read & write fluent English...
...sport. J. P. Morgan Sr. walked from his home on 36th Street to sip coffee and smoke cigars in the lobby. Mark Twain, in his white suit, used its decorous billiard room; Tammany Boss Richard Croker gave small dinners behind closed doors, invariably ordering terrapin. President McKinley fell heir to the Cleveland suite; Jay Gould, Senator George Hearst and P. T. Barnum made it their headquarters...
...purse seems heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To skip...