Word: patriarchal
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...Abdul Medjid II" and a ripe 17 was his beauteous daughter Princess Dur-e-Shawar in 1931. Beauteous too was his niece the Sultana Nilofar Hanim, great-granddaughter of Turkish Sultan Murad V. Best of all, the Caliph had no son and his hoary beard was that of a Patriarch unlikely to become again a father. At the death of this pope of Islam, therefore, pious believers would look upon the offspring of his daughter perhaps not as an orthodox and regular Caliph but certainly with utmost reverence in the absence of any other Caliph. Obviously the two pretty girls...
...makes Dancer Hans Zuellig seem all the more lonely when he loses his girl to a silk-hatted libertine. For The Prodigal Son, the one ballet to have its U. S. premiere last week, Choreographer Jooss went back to the old Biblical legend, cast himself as the square-bearded patriarch, Elsa Kahl as the mother, muscular Rudolf Pescht as the wandering son. Result was not another Green Table, but a ballet with spots that were powerful, spots that were not. The sirens Pescht meets on his philanderings contribute little to the modern dance. On the other hand, his homecoming...
Correct is Reader O'Keeffe. Of Patriarch Young's 27 wives, he married 19 in five years. On more than one occasion he married two on the same day and on Jan. 21, 1846, wed four, one pair before lunch, one pair after. Mormon Young's original favorite wife, Emmeline Free Young, bore him ten children. In the Young menage, three children were once born the same month, two the same...
...served as a private in the War. He supported the moderate Kerensky regime, thunderously opposed the Bolsheviki, reluctantly accepted a Government post from Nikolai Lenin which he abandoned shortly to nurse his failing health in Capri. Induced to return in 1928, he was feted as the literary patriarch of the Revolution...
...white trash are authentic but attractive. Old Man Roper, unregenerate patriarch, had fathered a rascally and shiftless brood. Thomas lived off in the swamp by himself, distilling shinny and drinking what he did not have to sell. Bart had not been improved by going to the War. He got a half-wit girl in trouble, killed her father and pinned the murder on her. Only decent ones in the family were Rachel, who took good care of Old Man Roper and her pining sisters, and Cully, her half-nephew, who liked engines, planned to be a mechanic...