Word: scionness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fascinatingly subtle contrast. A tall (6 ft. 1 in.), circumspect liberal Republican seven months younger than his bride, he is a scion of Eastern gentry who trace their bloodlines back to the Revolution. He served as one of the original Nader's Raiders, and his reticent charm, some friends believe, masks an incisive intelligence and healthy ambition. It is an American marriage to be reckoned with...
...Henry James' short story Owen Wingrave, he found what he was looking for. On the surface it is a preposterous tale about the scion of a military family who rejects a soldiering career on principle, finds himself rejected by his family, and finally meets a mysterious death in a haunted room. But Owen Wingrave's* opportunities for face-to-face confrontation seemed virtually limitless. Beyond that, it offered themes that have preoccupied Britten in much of his work: innocence betrayed, antimilitarism, the struggle of the individual against the group...
Prince Junio Valeric Borghese, 64, boasts impeccable aristocratic credentials. He is scion of a 600-year-old noble Siena family that has produced a Pope (Paul V), and a flock of cardinals. He, wears Italy's Gold Medal for Military Valor for leading World War II assaults on Gibraltar and Alexandria harbors as a naval commander...
Died. Winthrop L. Biddle, 74, penniless scion of the fabulous, prosperous, numerous Philadelphia Biddles; in an auto accident; in Haddon Township, N.J. Rejecting the family fortune, Biddle chose a drifter's life. He was killed by a hit-run driver while pushing a shopping cart full of his belongings down a country road...
...novel, The Scarlatti Inheritance, owes a large debt to histrionic melodrama. Its action encompasses the two World Wars. Its central figure-heir to the immense Scarlatti industrial fortune-is Ulster Scarlatti, a thoroughly bad seed who may be depraved but is certainly not deprived. Active duty as a younger scion in the U.S. Army during World War I infects him with a fondness for fascism. After the war, under the gullible noses of the family's financial advisers, he transfers huge sums of money to Europe. Then, poof! . . . he disappears, to reappear in Zurich as surgically deformed Heinrich Kroeger...