Word: progenitors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Only partially appeased with this consoling thought, the infants tone down their vocal chorus to a mere whimper, and concentrate on the delectable vision conjured up by their mother's words. At last their vigil is rewarded and the familiar step of their progenitor echoes through the open transom. But as the door swings open upon the expectant group, one glance suffices to convey the dire truth that the father's quest has been in vain. Abstract knowledge is the only sustenance he has to offer in the eyes of the brave mother...
...Robert Peel is the only son of the eldest son of the eldest son of great Sir Robert Peel (died 1850). Lord Peel is the eldest son of the youngest son of the same potent progenitor. Lord Peel inherits the title of Viscount from his father, who received it upon his retirement as Speaker of the House of Commons...
Counterbalancing, is a belief, cherished by some branches of the Hoover family that Andrew Hoover, Maryland Quaker, progenitor of the family in the U. S. and the Nominee's great-great-great-grandfather, came to this country in 1740 or before, not from Holland as some have said but direct from Germany. He signed his name Andreas Huber at first. He spoke "high" German. He is thought to have become a Quaker after his arrival...
...single period of 24 hours was celebrated by Italians, last week, as War Declaration? Day, Colonial Day, and the Fourth Centenary of the birth of Duke Emanuele Filberto of Savoy, doughty progenitor of bantamweight King Vittorio Emanuele...
...might imply, a noisy melodrama of ginthetic sin. Rather, it is a quiet and delicious little comedy about the descendants of a Kentucky distiller who have inherited his plant but who are unable to profit thereby because of the exigencies of the Volstead law and the severities of their progenitor's robust and thrifty widow. At last, after selling her their shares in the enterprise so that she may continue her proud traffic in bootleg, they go away from the old distillery on various romantic errands. Bottled was written by Anne Collins and Alice Timoney, sisters, southerners, journalists...