Word: inherited
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
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...