Word: inheritability
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...They fairly dote on the young man. One would think it was they who were marrying Tommy, and before they are through they are almost left to do it. Marie, or Peg Entwistle, is the harrassed young lady, who almost tosses over her true love, who will some day inherit the town bank, for an automobile salesman, and a roadster existence...
Then, though it is, hardly right, we will skip a few generations, stopping with that famous Forecast from whom I inherit my athletic ability. It was at the time during the Revolution when the British were besieged in Boston, and the Minute Men improved their idle moments in Cambridge by playing football among themselves at Soldiers Field. But Gamaliel Forecast was too fast for the Minute Men. He played on the Second Team...
...answer the princess for some weeks. He reflected that the lanky but athletic young man at whose presence he was asked to wink is, after all, the grandson and heir apparent of the erstwhile Kaiser. Princess Cecilia's son,* though he rule never as Wilhelm IV, may yet inherit the golden potency of a multimillionaire and live to reward well his friends...
...politics . . . most men and women," said Professor W. B. Munro in a recent article, "inherit their party affiliations.' Nor, it must be granted, does this hold in politics alone. Even the enlightened twentieth century, relegating to the cob-webs of antiquity this year what was the latest fashion the year before, does much as its fathers have done...
...fail to see why we should pamper these "reds" just because it is their skins that are red. Of course their forefathers owned our country. But it is the whole principle of our inheritance tax that it is wrong for children to inherit property beyond one or two generations. As long as that is so why are we so careful to give to these red Indians what our own white children cannot get? Let's have no more "reds" of any kind in our country...