Word: lineal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Quincy Adams, paged in the Army and Navy Club in Washington, turned out to be a Major of Marines from Quantico, Va. Robert Emmett, lineal descendant of the great Irish patriot, was found to be a lieutenant-commander in the Navy, stationed at Washington...
...situations obviously adapted for the stage, and having sentimentality to spare. The validity of purification through love is undisputed . . . in the theatre. And Marguerite Gautier is so regenerated, though even the strong forces of pure love are enable to cure her consumption. Dumas has chosen as his heroine the lineal descendant of Manon Lescaut and Marion Delorme. And the literary children of Marguerite, purged in the same manner, are still giving the census takers of fiction and drama a puzzling job, "La Dame Aux Camelias" is a play written in youth, written at white heat, and without the customary Dumas...