Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...somebody's wife or mistress. Ulanova has superseded Semyonovna who was recently snapped up by potent Comrade Leo M. Karakhan, Soviet Ambassador to Turkey. Three days before, in her last appearance in Russian ballet last week, Mrs. Karakhan slipped, fell, announced herself mildly hurt. She generously applauded her successor Ulanova from...
...difference between a Siamese and anybody else is that the Siamese takes things more easily. It was easy for the late, great King Rama V to beget 236 girls, 134 boys. It was easy for his successor King Rama VI to take the word of a Christian missionary that polygamy is wrong and beget no boy. This plumped the Crown into the lap of a son of polygamous Rama V who became King Prajadhipok ten years ago and abdicated in England last week with the greatest of ease...
...hardy fire-enters of Cambridge were almost as sentimental over Sal as their predecessors would have been over the proverbial fire-horse of a few decades ago. Any grief that they might have felt over Sal's retirement, however, was amply dispelled by her successor, a G1-foot aerial laddor and water tower...
...dedicated to St. Patrick. Of the city's priests, policemen, bartenders, politicians, firemen, judges and streetcar conductors, a goodly number are named for the Scottish-born saint who brought Christianity to Ireland. Thus there was plenty of cause for pious feeling last week when the authentic spiritual successor of St. Patrick-Joseph Cardinal MacRory, Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of All Ireland-visited New York...
...crucifix, which he kissed, and a holy water hyssop, with which he sprinkled the congregation as he walked up the aisle. Wearing a scarlet ferraiuolo, the Cardinal prostrated himself in prayer at a priedieu. Then he briefly thanked the people for the "welcome you have given me, the unworthy successor of St. Patrick...