Word: inheritors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wall in the offices of Blair & Co., bankers, at No. 24 Broad St., Manhattan, hangs a portrait of J. Insley Blair, founder. Revered is the memory of Mr. Blair, but stocks and bonds no longer interest him. The inheritor of his power, though not of his title, is Elisha Walker, senior partner of Blair & Co.* There is little about Partner Walker to distinguish him, outwardly, from other Blair & Co. partners such as Polo Player J. Cheever Cowdin. He has dark hair. He is of medium size. He is decidedly middle aged. He likes to play poker. He is impatient...
Engaged. Lord David George Brownlow Cecil Burghley, 23, famed hurdler, member of the British Olympic track team this year, descendant of the first Baron Burghley, Queen Elizabeth's Secretary of State; to Lady Mary Montagu-Douglas-Scott, sportswoman, inheritor of a 400-year-old title; of London...
...human race is by no means young. ... It is the inheritor of a very wide experience. It has located a great many fixed stars in the firmament of truth...
...called students indifferent and incompetent--if they will but forget all these and center, their thought on that youth of the starry eyes and the dream in his heart: if they will but see him as the child of this puzzling, fascinating, maddening world of yesterday and today, inheritor of its riches, its traditions, its burdens, its sins: will see him as a maker of the world of tomorrow which must be different because he wills it so; if they will only stand erect before him, in no pride of authority, but with unquestioning faith in the scientific tools they...
Council of Ambassadors. The Council of Ambassadors at Paris is inheritor of the functions of the Supreme Council (which functioned during and immediately after the War) and consists of the French Minister for Foreign Affairs (Premier Poincare) and the Ambassadors of the Allied Powers (British Empire, France, Italy, Belgium, Japan) accredited to the French Republic. This body sent Greece " the terms of her atonement," which were nearly identical with the Italian demands voiced in her ultimatum to Greece (TIME, Sept...