Word: heir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Then Neumann gives the life story of each of the passengers. He arranges these lives in four groups: "The Heirs," "The Confounded," "The Enthusiasts," "Destruction Through the Brain." Heir to the life of the spirit is the ascetic, The Pale One, Moyshe (Moses) Wasservogel, orphaned long ago in a Carpathian pogrom, named by his saviors after "that other who was picked up out of the stream of life." At nine-and-a-half Moyshe knew the Talmud and the Torah, at 15 he was drafted into the Tsar's Army...
...Heir to the blood of the fathers is Meier Borsht, tradesman, the vicissitudes of whose strong-witted life follow the pattern of his dark-bearded ancestors, whose adventures and generations Robert Neumann relates with prodigal invention...
Foreign influences are strong. Brazil has some 3,500,000 Italians and sons-of-Italians. Last year Edda Mussolini Ciano took a "health trip" to Brazil, where her chief host was Dom João de Orléans e Braganga, "heir" to the Brazilian throne and patron of the Integralistas, super-Fascist greenshirts whom Dictator Vargas has so far managed to suppress...
...Earl of Harewood (brother-in-law of George VI). His ancestor Sir Frederick Hamilton had distinguished himself fighting Germans under Sweden's great King Gustavus Adolphus. Guardsman Hamilton-Russell's son Gustavus Michael George, aged 8 and the final survivor of his family, is now heir to Lord Boyne...
Lieut, the Hon. Evelyn Boscawen. heir to Viscount Falmouth and not long out of Cambridge, died as a Coldstream Guardsman in Flanders. Lieut. Sir Marmaduke Charles Henry Joseph Casimir Blenner-hasset was killed while serving as a Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, leaving a nine-day-old successor to his baronetcy...