Word: scionness
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...Quirinal, where Umberto had made his last farewells and was packing. The King apparently saw a chance, decided not to go-and royalist leaders whipped up riots in Rome, Naples, Palermo. Alarmed, De Gasperi hastened up the hill and told Umberto to leave at once. In a rage, the scion of Savoy scrapped a conciliatory message to the new republic, substituting a truculent protest. Then he donned a grey suit and porkpie hat, stole away to Ciampino airport and flew to join his family in Portugal. In a few days the Assembly would convene in Monte Citorio palace...
...keep her helping hands off defective drains no matter what the social circumstances. In fact, she seems incapable of learning "her place." This combination of ability and inability becomes acutely embarrassing when she goes into service for one of the better county families (Reginald Owen, Margaret Bannerman and Scion Peter Lawford...
...Spaatz. It was almost certain that popular Republican Governor Edward Martin would challenge blustering Democratic Boss Joe Guffey for his 11-year-old seat in the U.S. Senate. This would leave either Chief Justice George W. Maxey of the State Supreme Court, or Lieut. Governor John C. Bell Jr., scion of a Philadelphia Main Line family, free to run for governor. Even though President Franklin Roosevelt carried Pennsylvania by 105,000 votes in the 1944 election, a Martin-Maxey or Martin-Bell ticket would be hard to beat...
Hirohito, Son of Heaven and Scion of the Sun Goddess, last week denied his own identity...
...Poland the face of UNRRA was Canada's Brigadier General Charles M. Drury, 33, who commanded the 4th Canadian Division. Drury, a scion of one of Canada's wealthiest families (armaments), had accepted his UNRRA command with a faint dislike of Poland and the Poles. Swiftly and publicly he changed his mind. More remarkable, perhaps, Drury had overcome Polish Government suspicions that UNRRA would be used as a political weapon...