Word: morgan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thomas Hunt Morgan (1933), Caltech zoologist, pioneer in the study of chromosomes and genes, lawgiver in heredity and genetics...
Married. Sarah Branch Jackson Coonley Morgan, daughter of Robert Jackson, onetime secretary of the Democratic National Committee, ex-wife of John Clark Coonley, Boston chain-store magnate, and widow of William Forbes Morgan, onetime Democratic National Treasurer; and Milton Dorland Doyle, Manhattan broker, vice president of the Washington Redskins; in Ellicott City...
Turned over to Chicago's war scrap pile were three and, a quarter tons of armored limousine-the rolling fortress in which once rode Utilitycoon Samuel Insull. To Philadelphia's scrap collection Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury, wealthy widow of the Morgan partner, gave a high-grade steel fence that ringed the Stotesbury Whitemarsh Hall estate. Height of the fence: eight feet. Length: nearly two miles. Content: enough steel for some 18,000 machine guns...
...Caribbean in the Golden Age of piracy. Hero is one Jamie-Boy Waring (Tyrone Power), who stands by his old captain, Henry Morgan (Laird Cregar), when Morgan decides to reform and put his buccaneering ex-mates out of business. Villain is Captain Leech (George Sanders, in a beard like a bonfire), also one of Morgan's raiders. The Black Swan is unreformed Captain Leech's pirate ship. Heroine is Lady Margaret Denby (Maureen O'Hara), daughter of Jamaica's ousted Governor...
...cinemaddicts an eyeful of his expensive torso. Later he kidnaps her aboard his ship, The Revenge, wolfs roast fowl at her in the Henry VIII manner. She succumbs. She stands by in a petticoat while, in a frenzy of rapiers, broadsides and bloated sails, Jamie-Boy and Governor Morgan liquidate Leech and crew. Occasionally Mr. Power has flashes of Douglas Fairbanks. Most of the time he is just a tougher-than-normal Tyrone Power. The aloof and lordly ships, whenever they get a chance, sail majestically away with the show...