Word: scionness
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...most topsy-turvy race of all was for the Minnesota governor?s mansion, where Reform party candidate and former wrestling champ Jesse "The Body" Ventura pulled off the upset of his career, defeating political scion Hubert Humphrey III in the process. Get ready to rumble in 2000, Washington...
...language is crunchy with indigenous hybrids (a golfer's swing is "flatter than a Bambalapitiya cheesecake"). Here he simply unravels the story of two rival clans occupying a piece of land once developed by an English captain with a house called Arcadia. By the end of the book, one scion is running a Shangri-La Hotel, and a matriarch is being buried in chilly London, at a funeral without mourners...
When she took over the family business 20 years ago, Miuccia Prada came with an unusual pedigree. The dark-eyed Milanese was not only the scion to an 85-year-old family leather-goods business but also an active communist who dabbled in mime. An odd combination, perhaps, but evidently terrific preparation for the world of fashion, where Prada's mime-quiet minimalism has made her fashion house into the decade's most powerful design force...
...true, he concedes, and there is worse. Barnaby is the scion of a distinguished Baltimore, Md., family; his great-grandfather made enough money to establish the Gaitlin Foundation for the Indigent, now headed by Barnaby's father. But the son's career as a teenage vandal strained relations with his family. "Back in the days when I was a juvenile delinquent," Barnaby confides, "I used to break into houses and read people's private mail. Also photo albums. I had a real thing about photo albums...
DIED. BARON EDMOND DE ROTHSCHILD, 71, banker-benefactor; of emphysema; in Geneva. The scion of the banking dynasty oversaw operations in Paris and Geneva and gave away much of what he made, most often to Israel...