Word: birthright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thirty pieces of silver for Austria to forsake her birthright!" cried Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. "Can anybody really believe that a country, however weak, would betray its whole future for so beggarly a sum as Austria will receive...
...chess with General Kosovo, his Prime Minister. Illyria is in a sad state of affairs. A foreign loan must be floated somehow, and without signing away the vast undeveloped oilfields at Tokar. Questions of the royal succession are also troubling Stephan. His eldest son Dushan had renounced his royal birthright to marry an American, and now is dead. Milan, the present Crown Prince, who shoots horses out of his way rather than walk around them, is suspected of conniving with Italy to hand over the Tokar oilfields, is suspected of being a bastard as well. Prince Marko, a pretender, also...
...Author. Born in Tennessee, 1881, Thomas Sigismund Stribling was graduated from the University of Alabama in 1904, wrote super-Sundayschoolish stories for the Nashville Sundayschool magazine. From such efforts he made a slow recovery. Birthright, his first novel, was published in 1921. Ten years later he began publishing his cycle for which he has been gathering material all his life. Says he of its characters, its locale: "To talk about whom I interviewed for this book is nonsense. I was born into it and when I get out of it, I'll die out of it." Other books: Fombombo...
...present evolution of events in this country might well have presented it again. If it is lost by affiliation with a group of doctrinaires, the solidity and coherence of program achieved by that affiliation will be a small compensation. The Club appears to have traded its liberal birthright for a mess of radical pottage...
...college has indeed sold its birthright for a mess of fire-engines. From this strategic point where they cannot come or go without disturbing the whole Yard and a dozen outlying buildings, the big red trucks will spread bedlam wherever Harvard men have their classes. From Paine Hall to Emerson, Beethoven will be punctuated with triple alarms and Philosophy with false alarms. Even the Gibralter-like walls of the new chapel will tremble...