Word: inheritability
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Please forgive a correction from "the guru of British pedigree" (your words about us), but your informant J. Charles Thompson was not 100% correct in telling you that only eldest sons of eldest sons inherit coats of arms. By English, Welsh and Irish heraldic law, younger sons and their younger sons do too-the qualification is legitimate male-line descent from the original man entitled to the arms...
...that Oliver finally has managed to overcome his bereavement. But the confessions of Oliver Barrett IV are conspicuously uninteresting. Page after page, Ollie exorcises his guilt for the excesses of his forebears, who exploited workers for generations in order to accumulate a spectacular fortune. Oliver is in position to inherit the tainted millions he rejected in Love Story, depending on Jenny, fostering his guilt over her death...
There was, however, an unfortunate tendency for some psychiatrists, and psychoanalysts especially, to inherit the priestly function of taboo enforcement. Menninger, for example, described homosexuality as "high in the kingdom of evil" and stated that he could not bring himself to "condone it." If, as the good doctor supposed, homosexuality is an illness, how does one "condone" or condemn...
...accomplished the general purposes the President-elect had in mind. For the first time, Carter last week assembled his top aides, Cabinet nominees and other upper-echelon appointees, giving them a chance to get to know each other and to begin wrestling with the problems they will inherit...
Hubert is also systematically selling Maggie's paintings and antiques and filling the house with clever fakes. "Hoping to inherit the earth," he intones, "I declare myself meek...