Word: lineal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cornelius Shields was born far from the sea, in St. Paul, Minn., in 1895. Fitly enough, it was a notable year in U.S. sailing history, though the year's tidings made little ripple beyond the Eastern Seaboard. It was the year in which American yachtsmen, sailing Defender, a lineal descendant of the great ocean racer America,* defeated the British challenger for the tenth straight time in the America's Cup series. It was also the year in which the premier international championship for smaller boats, the Seawanhaka Cup series, was launched. Though he was in no position...
...June 1 item on the death of Andrew Jackson IV, great-grandson of President Andrew Jackson: Andrew Jackson "IV" was my mess sergeant in World War I, and I seem to remember that he explained his name to me as some adoption, saying that he was not a lineal descendant of the seventh President...
...Reader Longstreet (a lineal descendant of Confederate Hero General James Longstreet) is right. His old mess sergeant was the descendant of Andrew Jackson Jr., who was adopted at birth by Old Hickory and his wife Rachel...
...Lineal Prig. The lovers of the story are François de Séryeuse, a young Frenchman of good family, and Mahaut, Countess d'Orgel, descended from the old Creole nobility of Martinique, the wife of the Count d'Orgel. When the story begins after World War I, Mahaut is scarcely more than a child and is deeply in love with her husband, a man of 30; "in return, [the count] showed her much gratitude and the warmest friendship, which he himself mistook for love...
...Count d'Orgel, in fact, was a lineal prig, living & breathing for social ritual The Orgels met François de Séryeuse at the circus one night and invited him to lunch. Soon he and Mahaut were talking about their childhood lives in the country. François words refreshed her like a gift of wild flowers...