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Word: inheritor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because of Mr. William Lloyd Garrison, inheritor of his father's incendiary nature, the Dickey initiation of 1891 was extremely unfortunate. (Firey radicals make such poor clubbies...

Author: By George H. Watson jr., | Title: The Case of The Cigar And The Swelling Arm | 9/28/1956 | See Source »

...Heart is much like watching the village idiot for a couple of hours--the experience can be amusing, but it leaves a strangely bitter after-taste. The pitiful "hero" of the play, Uncle Daniel Ponder, is in fact a sort of village idiot of a small southern town. The inheritor of a vast estate, he grew to middle age without ever growing up. He spends his time playing with the local children, but some obscure loneliness finally drives him to marry a backwoods girl he picked up in a soda fountain. When the girl, who is even more childish than...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: The Ponder Heart | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

...College's oldest alumni, Charles H. Foster '81, who died on Sept. 22, at the age of 95, named the University as the ultimate inheritor of his estate, it was learned yesterday. He was the last living member of his class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charles H. Foster '81 Dies as Last of Class | 10/7/1955 | See Source »

...proud bull rings of old Spain, the eight-month bullfight season is nearing its end. The critics regretfully agree that Castile and Andalusia can so far offer no fit inheritor for the cape of the fabulous Manolete, killed in 1947, or for wealthy Luis Miguel Dominguin, who retired last year to dally with film stars. Instead, three brilliant matadors from the New World have flamed up to win the Spanish public's acclaim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: New-World Fighters | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

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