Word: heir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...candidate, however, both by age (20 weeks) and position (eventual heir to the British throne) was not likely to run for public office. Nevertheless, Prince Charles of Edinburgh was daily in the public mind. Last week, his parents, Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip, packed young Charles off by motorcar to spend Easter at their new home at Windlesham Moor, 30 miles from London, in Surrey. The trip did not disturb the clocklike daily routine which Charlie's mother had decreed. Each morning at 6, he awoke for a breakfast of milk and patent cereal. Three other meals and long...
...Wilde's wittier lines, and plumped out the familiar plot, like a tired old pillow, into a new but improbable shape. As the wayward Mrs. Erlynne, Madeleine Carroll is going about in present-day London. So is the once dashing Lord Darling-:on (George Sanders). Weighed down by :heir years and greasepaint, they piece together the old story in flashbacks...
...first time. DiMaggio, hobbling by on his sore heel, went to bat as a pinch hitter and drew a walk; Groth got a single in five times at bat, tossed out a Yankee at the plate with a good throw from center field. Did Groth look like an heir apparent? In spite of a mine-run performance that day, he handled himself with confidence; to sportwriters he seemed a good candidate for rookie-of-the-year. DiMag reserved judgment: "I got to see him do more than he did today...
Spain's ex-Foreign Minister and onetime heir-apparent to his brother-in-law, Francisco Franco, rose with leisurely languor from a red velvet couch, adjusted his gray silk tie, sauntered into his studio to receive the unexpected callers. Solemn of mien, in dark blue suits and black ties, the two señors coldly declined to sit. One thrust forward a blue-bound book with the bright yellow title-Press Mission in Spain. "Have you seen this book?" he asked with menace in his tone...
...wretchedly sensitive to their gibes about his vanity. Garrick was indeed terribly vain-how could he help it? He had been praised enough to turn a man clear out of his mind. "More pains have been taken to spoil the fellow," said Sam Johnson, "than if he had been heir-apparent to the Emperor of India...