Word: scions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young (38), straw-haired Lord Burghley should fit the office well. He is a scion of the brilliant house of Cecil, which has furnished Britain with some of its most distinguished statesmen and soldiers. His father is the Marquess of Exeter; from him some day Lord Burghley will inherit enormous estates in Northamptonshire and Rutlandshire. His wife is a sister of the Duchess of Gloucester. Lord Burghley looks like someone disguised as a handsome, sporting Englishman, but his is no masquerade...
...Cambridge. It is doubtful if he even dreamed then that he would ever play the politician's part. Last week the opportunity came: he was named Viceroy of India. By putting a military man in the post, Britain broke a precedent standing since 1858. At 60, the scion of a family of generals, the trooper who lost an eye at Ypres, who studied desert tactics under Lord Allenby and applied them triumphantly in the Cyrenaica campaign of 1941, the reader of Socrates, Shakespeare and Browning - this closemouthed, wry-humored Briton took over the Empire's most complex, burdensome...
...Missy" Meloney, onetime editor of Woman's Magazine, Delineator and the New York Herald Tribune Sunday Magazine, organizer of the Herald Tribune Forum, got Nichols four years ago from Sunset, the Pacific Monthly, a home-&-fire-side publication. As managing editor of This Week, Nichols, scion of New England clerics, was so awed by his boss that he observed: "You can see her beautiful spirit shining right through...
Commodore Joe Flaig, scion of the Minneapolis Flaigs, will marry the charming Maisdelle Carrol Lodge Abbott of Cambridge on Sunday, the twenty-fourth of April. The wedding will take place in the Harvard Yard in an impressive "muzzels -- butts, butts -- muzzels" ceremony...
Like Hirohito of Japan, Emperor Luis Felipe Huaraca Duchicela XXVI is a scion of the sun. Unlike Hirohito, the legitimate heir to the golden throne of the Incas has offered to remain neutral in World War II. But one day last spring the Emperor's neutrality became strained. In fact, Huaraca XXVI got hopping mad. For continental defense purposes Ecuador had offered to lend the U.S. use of a plot of "sacred land" donated to the Emperor by the Santa Elena City Council-the very spot where the "Only Inca" had intended to build a summer palace...