Word: inheritance
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Most Catholic Majesty is thought to agree with Dictator Primo de Rivera that none of the four Spanish Infantes (sons of the King) are physically fit to inherit the Throne. For their weaknesses and infirmities His Majesty is understood to blame not his own ardent self, but Her Majesty. He is said to have tested this theory by begetting, under the rose, certain quite robust offspring...
...respecters of Chairman Butler's political sagacity looked at it this way: Suppose the Hooverites are downhearted now. Suppose Keynoter Fess prepares to extol the Coolidge virtues and record. Then, suppose Candidate Hoover is allowed more and more to inherit the Coolidge virtues, record and support. The effect upon Candidate Hoover might be to make him thoroughly conscious of his party obligations, his privilege. The effect upon his friends might be to fill them with a delight more keenly felt after anxiety. The effect upon the country might be to make the Hoover candidacy seem inevitable, irresistible. Meantime, right...
...Edward John Stanley, 10, is a scion of the great English families of Montague and Villiers. He stands to inherit the Earldom of Derby from his grandfather. He knows that the Countess Derby, his grandmother, is Bedchamber Woman to Queen-Empress Mary...
...often they are not jokes at all but matter like "I'm not a menial, if you get what I menial." There are inevitably excellent Tiller girls and a scattering of capable supporters and a plot about a man who had to pretend he was husband and father to inherit wealthy grandfather's gold. Nearly everyone agreed that Miss Lillie's surroundings are superfluous. Yet when she is in view contentment spreads ; especially when she upsets the dinner service and makes her exit wrapped nobly in the tablecloth...
...Significance. Dancer Duncan was born in 1880. As a work of literature the story of her life has merely the merits of explicitness and sincerity. These merits, inherit in the autobiography of a talented, bizarre, intelligent, beautiful and scandalously extraordinary woman, are enough to make such an autobiography a dazzling confusion of testament and tabloid true story...