Word: successor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reporters were absolutely bent, baffled, and bewildered. They said that Famed Conjurer Dunninger was the legitimate successor to Harry Houdini. One man who had watched the exhibition of miracles was disgusted by them. He was Charles E. Davenport, the manager of Nino Pecoraro, a medium who had issued a challenge to Dunninger for a "phenomena producing" contest. After watching the things which Dunninger did, Davenport withdrew his challenge because Mr. Pecoraro was alleged not to be in the right psychic condition...
...Give me liberty, or give me death!", he never imagined that his descendants would fall so far from the heights of freedom as to discard their clothes of democracy for the court robe. By the hundred have the citizens of the land of the free bought audience with the successor of the tyrant of the colonies, plaguing high officials and besieging ambassadors to satisfy their vanity...
...successor to serve out the two remaining years of Judge Moore's term will shortly be chosen by the Council and the Assembly of the League of Nations, both voting separately...
...Carney, who was in charge of the ends during the 1927 season, will not return to his duties next fall. His successor has not as yet been definitely named, but it is understood that the appointment will be announced in the very near future...
...Buell '23, 1927 quarterback coach, has accepted a position as master at Milton Academy and will therefore be lost to the 1928 staff. No successor to the vacancy has been named...