Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...northern Paris is a factory workers' district, almost solidly Communist but with a minority of hard-headed little cafe and shop keepers who are tough - or with their middle-class ideas they would not live in Clichy. Some of these shopkeepers belong to the new French Social Party, successor to the bourgeois Croix de Feu league of gentle manly and insipid Colonel Count Casimir de La Rocque (TIME, April 20). Last week the Social Party hired the Olympia cinema house in Clichy for a special showing of their film La Bataille. Communists at once protested. Paris police authorities ruled...
...boys'' and "bastards." In the next few years the Outside closed in savagely. Stirpiculture seemed to the Community's neighbors no better than turpitude. In 1879, when Noyes was 9, his father fled to Canada to escape the clergy's clamor for his hide. His successor managed badly, quarrels split the Community, and shortly afterward Leader Noyes proclaimed from Canada a New Stirpicultural Policy: get married. Secularism, thus unleashed, ran its course...
Greg Jameson has swum his last meet against Yale and while Harvard will miss him, they may not have to look too far for a successor. Jim Monroe has been coming up all season, and the race he swam against Macionis for second place was one of the thrills of the meet. It has been seven years since Hal Ulen came to Cambridge and this is his first victory over Yale; it will not be his last, and unless we miss our guess, next year will be Number...
...could feel just what horrid thoughts my friend was thinking. So in order to relieve his anxiety, I went on to say: 'My great ambition on Jan. 20, 1941, is to turn over this desk and chair in the White House to my successor, whoever he may be, with the assurance that I am at the same time turning over to him as President, a nation intact. ... I want to get the nation as far along the road of progress as I can. I do not want to leave it to my successor in the condition in which Buchanan...
...pipes, his soft-soled shoes, his unfailing politeness with miscreants. Neither retiring President Angell, now vacationing in Bermuda, nor President-elect Charles Seymour, who sat with him on a Versailles Commission to fix the boundaries of Hungary, had anything to say about Dean Mendell's successor...