Word: inheritence
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...Crows the old man has left his money to his secretary-valet John Geard, an evangelistic fanatic who can cure old Tittie Petherton's cancer pains by holding her in his arms. The stage is set for the struggle between Philip Crow, the rich industrialist who expected to inherit Canon Crow's money and industrialize all Glastonbury with its help, and John Geard, who with the help of his new-found wealth and the communist enemies of Philip Crow, gets himself elected mayor of the town. To advertise Glastonbury to the world at large, Mayor Geard stages...
...Observers wondered where Sobol had procured his material. He had borrowed old shots of Thaw and Nesbit from old newsreel libraries, had new ones made to order. Guy Loomis, an oil stock promoter who found that his land really contained an oil well; William ("Billy") Mishkin, who expects to inherit a fortune in a few years; and a Manhattan sport named John Walker, were easily persuaded to be revealed as Metropolitan spendthrifts. Mayor Walker was not at all averse to posing at the piano as a postlude to the portrait of his cobbler. Other items in the first instalment...
...astonishing success of the Nazi party in yesterday's election seems likely to be the peak of their fortune. Although they will inherit the votes of the Hugenburg nationalists these will be insufficient to offset the Communist votes which will go to the President, or which will at least remain inactive. A direct trial of strength, without the diverting issues of the other parties should almost inevitably lead to Hindenburg's reelection...
...better, perhaps, at the tricks of their trade than many of their confreres, the prestige of the contemporary Barrymores rests upon one trait which they have in common: a magnificent stage presence which they inherit from their father, the late Maurice Barrymore, who was born Herbert Blythe and took his stage name from an Irish peer who was one of his ancestors. Where John Barrymore is elegant, faintly satiric and irrepressibly nonchalant, his brother is curt, surly, emphatic. At 53 (three years older than John), Lionel usually plays the roles of elderly but vigorous personages. He exercises his prerogative...
...sounds like a nice life, but there were troubles in it. Husband Henry wanted to turn Catholic; if he did he could not inherit the family estates. Daisy finally smoothed things out. "I persuaded him to give in; surely no God would wish him to give up everything, all his future and position, for religion, when the Protestant religion is after all very like the Catholic and perhaps, in a way, purer and grander be- cause of its very simplicity...