Word: inheritence
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Causes. Nine out of ten cases inherit their sick headache. Women and members of neurotic families are the usual victims. Among causes inferred...
...Babbitts . . . continue to inherit the earth...
...vile nickname, "The Epileptic Pig," but he is no porkier than Primo and considerably less epileptic than several members of the Royal House. Just now he is behind a sensible project to alter the Constitution so that, in case of need, one of King Alfonso's healthy daughters can inherit the Crown. As everyone knows Crown Prince Alfonso is a haemophile,? Prince Jaime deaf and almost dumb, Princes Juan and Gonzalo "mentally under-developed...
Presently there was a rumor that she was with child. The Commodore was encouraged by the possibility of recruiting a son to inherit his command. When his wife's "inflation" proved a bubble, he became somewhat embittered against the world in which such trickeries were practiced...
...selected no outsider, no Professional Executive, to handle its gigantic business. The professional executive is usually an importation from a company's financial backers, and the Metropolitan is, of course, nobody's toy train. Nor does Mr. Ecker belong to the small group of Dynastic Executives who inherit their positions. He might well be termed a "log cabin to White House" executive...