Word: lineal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...breeches stepped bravely up to a steward. "My name is Wainwright," said he. "I'm a stowaway, sir, and I'd like some supper." No penniless adventurer was Carroll Livingston Wainwright Jr., 8, but a scion of Manhattan's socialite Livingstons, de Peysters, Wainwrights, great-grandson of Jay Gould, lineal descendant of Peter Stuyvesant. Month ago his mother, divorced from his father, fetched Carroll to Bermuda to live with her and her new husband, Sir Hector Macneal. Last week Carroll walked calmly up the gangplank of the Queen of Bermuda, caused a kidnapping scare in Hamilton before he gave himself...
...service in the Appleton Chapel of the Memorial Church today at 8.45 o'clock this morning, held under the auspices of the Memorial Society. Henry Wilder Foote '97, Minister of the first Unitarian Church, Belmont, will give the commemorative address. A Baccalaureate Hymn, written by Lionel DeJersey Harvard, a lineal descendant of John Harvard, for his own Commencement in 1915, will be sung at the conclusion of the service after which the members of the Memorial Society will place a wreath on the John Harvard statue...
Harvard men who are lineal descendents of Civil War veterans are requested to send their names to the office of the Crimson...
Same day Generalissimo Chiang's bland, stogie-smoking brother-in-law by marriage, Dr. H. H. Kung, 75th lineal descendant of Confucius, returned to Nanking from a haggling expedition in North China. Hopping by airplane from general to general Dr. Kung had apparently cut a swath of bribery broader and more sweeping than any in recent Chinese annals. "I have had unqualified success," he beamed, "in cementing the political bonds of Northern leaders with Nanking...
...sesquicentennial. Each & every employe got half a month's salary as a bonus. A privately printed history of its first 150 years was written by no less a person than Allan Nevins, last year's Pulitzer Prize winner (Grover Cleveland}. Clients and depositors, many of them lineal descendants of original customers, sent armfuls of flowers. To become 17th president of Bank of New York John C. Traphagen went through the bank's usual ritual. A Chase National vice president, he was first nominated by the trustees for the requisite period of three weeks. After...