Word: heirs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Exercise In Genealogy. The "wonder worker Jesus," he has discovered after patient inquiry, was actually the rightful heir to the throne of Israel. He was, in short, the legitimate but unacknowledged son of Prince Antipater, grandson of Herod the Great. This secret, known to few people during Jesus' life, became known to Pontius Pilate, the Roman Governor General of Judaea. That was why Pilate granted Jesus a private interview and that, of course, accounted for the inscription Pilate wrote for the cross: "Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews...
...heir to all civilization and all smooth-running modern gadgets, the 20th Century citizen, goes to strange places in pursuit of happiness and self-improvement. Every year he spends hundreds of millions of dollars on fortune tellers, medical quacks, "lovelorn experts" of press and radio, palmists, mail-order muscle builders, numerologists, diet faddists, nerve pills, perfumed unguents...
Elizabeth ("The Red Network") Dilling's son, Kirkpatrick, sued his ex-mother-in-law for alienation of affections, two years after his wife divorced him. Mrs. Reid Bronson, the ex-mother-in-law, retorted that Dilling had "lured" her daughter by "claiming he was heir to ... $100,000 . . . and would take her to ... a Swiss chalet." Mother Dilling managed to get into the act. Said she: "It's all a New Deal smear...
...will not come to you as a surprise to be told that your Confidential Guide is no more confidential than you intended it to be. We teachers have the morbid curiosity the flesh is heir to. By now you may be sure your pamphlet has driven its little wedge into the brain...
...hasn't the least idea where to find them. All he has is a president (himself), a plan (the St. John's idea, with variations)-and $4,500,000. This tidy endowment came from the Old Dominion Foundation, set up five years ago by young aluminum heir Paul Mellon, who enrolled in St. John's at 33, when he already had degrees from Yale and Cambridge. St. John's itself has only a $130,000 endowment...