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...impressive as anybody along the way were the Chinese "of great leisure and extremely strong nerves," who, despite their screaming anti-Japanese" banners everywhere, treated her with unfailing courtesy. Her concluding thought was that the Chinese "seem to be likely to inherit the earth and go on forever, while the Japanese, Italians and other Latin peoples go neurotic and mad, followed by the English...
...rich sister will have nothing to do with him. Andreina hates Stefano, but to plague Pietro she ousts him, takes the cripple again as her lover. Hatred of everyone and everything becomes more & more her guiding passion. By Roman law, crippled Brother Stefano, not Husband Matteo, stands to inherit Maria Luisa's wealth at her death. Thinking that if Stefano has the money it would be as good as hers, Andreina determines that Maria Luisa shall die. She tries to get Pietro to do the job; he will not take her seriously. Stefano deserts her, but still she goes...
...Autocrat is the story of a German steel tycoon, a character suggesting Krupp, who comes to the conclusion that his heirs scarcely deserve to inherit the vast works he has built up and it must go to the stalwart Nazi workmen who have toiled for him all these years. According to German Common & Economic Law, in such cases "considerations of proximity" shall rule-that is, if the heirs by blood are all splendid Germans of ''pure race" and patriotism, the estate may rightly go to them, but should they be otherwise the "superior proximity" of the Nazi workmen...
Bobby here is an orphan being brought up by an ex-slave way down south. Suddenly it appears that he is to inherit a large fortune and so he travels north to stay with his Yankee relatives, a Mr. and Mrs. Layton and his grandmother, played by May Robeson. The parents stumble through an impossible role as a stupid, unimaginative couple, the kind only Hollywood can discover...
...Richard Brinsley Sheridan, son of Clare Consuelo Sheridan, British sculptor and travel-writer, great-great-great-grandson of 18th Century Irish dramatist Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (The School for Scandal) after an appendectomy; in Algeria. Legend is that for 400 years no first-born Sheridan son has lived to inherit or long enjoy his patrimony. Captain Wilfred Sheridan, Richard's father, was killed in France in 1915 six months before his son's birth...