Word: heir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time, in 1938, he was temporarily out of public life in protest against Chamberlain appeasement-he came to make little speeches, lay wreaths and inspect CCC camps. This time, as Britain's Foreign Secretary, Leader of the House of Commons and Churchill's heir-presumptive, he came on urgent and secret business...
Symphony musicians who think they are underpaid should "take over the conduct of Philharmonic orchestras," recommended peppery Sir Thomas Beecham, 63-year-old British symphony conductor who last fortnight married 35-year-old British Pianist Betty Humby. The wealthy laxative heir (Beecham's Pills) told a Manhattan lecture audience that music's future depended on the bounty of the rich. Warning of possible state control over the music world, he forecast that ultimately "an enlightened government will declare that it cannot support such a luxury...
...Council member he saved face in the Party. As Vatican envoy he kept some of his social prestige (and was in a position to meet diplomatic representatives of enemy countries). He needed these cushions for his ego because the "change of guard" removed him from his position as heir apparent to the Italian dictatorship, and from his easy access to the public trough. Both the Italian people and their German overlords had reason to be pleased...
...Business School was founded in 1908 expected it to degenerate into a fortress of reaction, sending forth grim-mouthed young capitalists, armed with a bull whips with which to scourge labor. But the School has, happily, avoided the pitfalls and temptations to which any incubator for young executives is heir; and now, when it is being given over completely to the needs of the armed forces, it can safely be called one of Harvard's most successful experiments...
...Sargeant ever wash dishes three times a day 365 days a year-or make three beds every morning of his life-or feed his son and heir at exactly 6, 10, 2 and 6 each day-or diaper the infant every hour on the hour? I am laughing...