Word: inheritability
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What's in a name? Nothing, until it's famous. What's in a title? Many things, whether you inherit it, buy it, invent it, or only bask in its resplendence...
...their desire to be great little men, go out for competitions. Then when they attain distinction in extra-curriculum activities, they consider themselves the prominent undergraduates of Harvard College, and look forward to seeing their splendid achievements carefully enumerated in the newspapers when they become engaged, or inherit family, money. Not only is the whole system of competitions highly conventional, but the competitions themselves are just as much so. A candidate does exactly what scores of candidates have done before him, for he delivers his mind, body, and soul to eight weeks or more of conventional toil...
...MYSTERY -Jeffrey Farnol-Little, Brown ($2.00). Out of his early Georgian property room, Mr. Farnol brings another grand collection of Hessian boots, shirt frills, snuff boxes, rapiers, gleaming dirks. These he disposes as skilfully as of yore. The plot lurks excitingly -how young David Loring came from Virginia to inherit his father's English estates and was tangled, at the peril of his life in the cunning of his Uncle Nevil, diabolical usurper. Murder creeps by night; Anticlea Loring (foundling, not blood-cousin to David) has flaming red hair and a high temper; wedding bells peal over...
...Ames interprets the role of a crook who will inherit an immoderate amount of millions if he becomes for one year the pastor of a village church. After introducing to his astonished flock golf, jazz and auction bridge, after falling in love with the inevitable sweet and simple maiden, he reforms...
...offspring. Arizona, on the other hand, is a world pioneer in abolishing distinctions between children born in and out of wedlock. One of its statutes (Ariz. Laws 1921, c. 114) provides that every child is a legitimate child of its natural parents, is entitled to support and education, may inherit and transmit property to the same extent as if it had been born in lawful wedlock. This statute, however, goes on to declare that "this law shall not be so construed as to give to said child the right to dwelling or residence with the family of its father...