Word: bequested
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Poor dead playfellows, a sad bequest...
...Permit me to point out that your account of the bequest of the late H. G. Woodward for damyank-tutored schools left a very false impression...
When I first read of this bequest it pleased me to think that here was really an example of a wealthy and influential Southerner who was willing to forget the unfortunate Civil War and make the people of the South realize that the damyank folks of the North were really as kind, as generous, as truly human as the "old South" folks themselves were. In my mind I was already attaching the label of true liberalism and tolerance to the memory of this would-be benefactor...
...eliminate the last shreds of would-be liberalism from this magnificent bequest, and at the same time "scoop" all the other publications who were too weak-kneed to print it, by stating that the will specifically forbade admission to these schools of any member of the Hebraic race...
Toronto-ites was the bequest of its residue (from $300,000 to $500,000) to the Toronto woman who, ten years after Mr. Millar's death, shall have borne the greatest number of children...