Word: lineal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...given name?" asks a puzzled teacher. "Yes, my brother give it to me"). Beaver (Jerry Mathers) and brother Wally (Tony Dow). 12, and their attractive parents (Hugh Beaumont and Barbara Billingsley) add up to a pleasant, occasionally touching image of togetherness in sunny suburbia. But the boys are also lineal descendents of Tom Sawyer. Penrod and Skippy in a tradition of carrying a dead goldfish in pants pocket, enduring the first black eye and the first crush on teacher, selling water on the hottest day of the year and seeing through the emperor's clothes with such remarks...
Perceptive readers will recognize her right away. Her name is Vivian, but she is a lineal 20th century descendant of Amber St. Clare, the 17th century harlot whose life story (Forever Amber] was such a success that Author Kathleen Winsor needed no rich old man to launch her on a life of well-financed literary debauchery...
Novelist Nathan is that literary oddity, a lineal descendant of James Branch Cabell. Their type of gently spoofing, satirical fantasy is not much in vogue these days, but Author Nathan is an expert practitioner of the genre. His touch is light, his fish are intelligent, and his dogs and dragons are shaggy...
...violin out for an annual tuning and workout. In latter years, a distinguished violinist has been invited to do the job. This year Genoa took out some extra Paganini memorabilia, asked French Violinist Zino Francescatti to give the Guarneri its annual tuning. Perhaps because Francescatti is Paganini's lineal musical descendant (his father studied with Paganini's only real pupil), Genoese decided to give him a still greater honor: a half-hour concert in the city hall, to be played on the legendary Guarneri. His program: one of Paganini's 24 famed Caprices and the Bach Chaconne...
Some members of the tribe of Dan (the seafarers of Israel) supposedly reached Ireland, where a certain Princess Tephi married one of their chieftains and founded the present royal family of Britain-making Queen Elizabeth II a lineal descendant of David. This Irish Israelite line is also thought to have preserved the stone Jacob used as a pillow. The stone, so goes the legend, was saved from the Jerusalem temple when it was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, and taken to Ireland, thence to Scotland. Now it is the Stone...