Word: inheritance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...corruption of democracies proceeds directly from the fact that one class imposes the taxes and another class pays them. . . . Democracy is likely to perish through national bankruptcy. . . . Democracy means a victory of sentiment over reason." Glints Buckingham Palace: "When Christ said 'Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the Earth,' He was thinking of the British Empire." At last the Abbey: "The Church burned Bruno and imprisoned Galileo. The Church has lived by its monopolies and conquered by its intolerance...
Politically he will not be better off than was ex-Chancellor Stresemann. He will inherit, as a "nonpartisan" man, the same internal political difficulties. His policy will be the same: to restore finances, to provide an agreement with France without admitting the legality of the Ruhr occupation or jeopardizing the interests of the other Allies, to conciliate Bavaria and strengthen Minister President von Knilling, to repress Monarchism and Bolshevism...