Word: inheritability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Composer Van Vactor, whose Symphony in D won the prize, became a musician by accident because he happened to inherit a flute from an uncle. The village barber of Plymouth, Ind., where his family then lived, taught him how to play it. Soon Flutist Van Vactor was well along on a flute-playing career that wound up in the ranks of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Meanwhile, he studied composition with Composer Wessel at North western University, later in Europe. His prize-winning symphony, which will be performed this winter in Manhattan, he describes as "absolute, dissonant, and, I hope, pleasant...
Blessed are the meek; for they shall inherit the earth...
When Frank Dan died last month, he left his estate to his widow with the proviso that Audrey Bridget and Frank Dan Jr., "the good son," inherit it later. Thereupon Elisha and his second wife marched out of their small flat in Greenwich Village, reminded his relatives of the will left in 1901 by his great-uncle, Inventor-Founder Lewis Edson Waterman. None of the Waterman clan but Elisha had remembered that this sage greybeard bequeathed 60% of the fountain-pen stock to Frank Dan Waterman with the proviso that on his death it go to Elisha. Said Elisha last...
...Roche from her novel Whiteoaks of Jalna; produced by Victor Payne-Jennings). Chief distinction of Whiteoaks is its 101-year-old heroine, played to the age limit by Ethel Barrymore. A wealthy, imperious, chops-licking war horse, Gran Whiteoak is surrounded by an obsequious tribe worrying over who will inherit her money. Neither her fuddy-duddy children nor her horsy grandchildren are prepared to see it go to Finch, the family neurotic (Stephen Haggard), and they kick up quite a rumpus when it does...
...When Lieutenant Doyle's little daughter was taken ill, the lieutenant lunched every day with the Rogers family. Whenever Mrs. Rogers baked a cake, her husband took a piece to the Doyles. And it soon became clear that, if anything happened to Vincent Doyle, George Rogers would probably inherit his $3,200-a-year...