Word: inheritability
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Richard Arlen and Chester Morris, the two brothers who inherit a wheat farm, are two of the Playgoer's favorite actors. "Golden Harvest" supplies an ideal role for Arlen where his straight-forward masculinity is unrestrained by wing collar or the stare of social dictators. Chester Morris is the prodigal who leaves the farm and "cleans up" in the Chicago Wheat Pit. He does this by the simple expedient of dressing up in rubber coat and hat, walking under a shower bath, and stampeding the Pit by crying. "Rain, rain," thus forcing down the price about ten cents and crowning...
...Prince should not become too great an expense. A marriage contract was drawn up granting Prince Alexis a fat dowry but keeping "complete control of the disposition of her entire property" for Heiress Hutton. Included in the contract, but not made public, was the amount Prince Alexis would inherit in case of his wife's death. These details settled, all was ready for a double celebration of the wedding #151; first, in a French registry office, then two days later with burning candles and flowered crowns in the Russian Orthodox Church...
Saki's comedy concerns a young English gentleman heir to a large estate who is about to inherit his legacy. Matters are hindered by the presence of his mother, a domineering character in the county-seat where the story takes place. There are four young ladies after the youthful "catch," and on this point the comedy's humorous confusion turns...
...Admiral's widowed mother, to increase the inheritance legally adopted the names of every visible relative in 1905. Dramatist Dunsany inherited the title and Irish properties, leaving the residuary estate and nomenclature to Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, who in 1916 adopted his mother's last three names to inherit the inherited estates...
Because humbly-born Reza Shah did not inherit his Throne but wrested Persia's Government from weak, sensuous, do-nothing Ahmed Shah by a coup d'état in 1921, TIME will continue to call His Imperial Majesty "dynamic, self-made...