Word: eldest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grown up rather wild in their ways, with a hatred of the trammels of society; the fact is, they have not been trained to take their places in society as leaders at all, and the King is very much embarrassed about this. He was obliged to consent to his eldest daughter, Yolanda, marrying a poor Italian nobleman because Yolanda obstinately refused to give him up, and now Mafalda has married a poor German Protestant prince, one of a large family in which are three sets of twins! These marriages are very unpopular in Italy, as the Italians feel mortified...
...first and second sons have died. According to the law of primogeniture, her grandson, the son of her eldest son, is her heir. But the Begum clings to her own third son, Sahib Cada Mohomid Mamidulla Kahn, whom she has brought with her to show off to the London sahibs...
...than 30 years ago? when his father was no one in particular. He lived to see his father become the most powerful figure in Germany. He lived to see his father die less than a year and a half ago. (TIME Apr. 21, 1924). Today Dr. Edmund Hugo Stinnes, eldest son of Hugo, looks out from under his father's black brows, seeing the future grim and desolate, and his face blanches...
There are a dozen Forbes-Robertson mouths to feed and Johnston, the eldest, though speedily mastering his painting, cannot refuse a salaried part in Mary, Queen o' Scots at the Princess Theatre. Other engagements follow and the young actor begins meeting the great stage folk of the day-Charles Calvert, Charles Kean, Samuel Phelps (who trains him), Madame Modjeska, Author Charles Read amid a sea of manuscript in his study, Miss Ellen Terry in her gray-blue drawing-room with ribbons of incense smoke wreathing the Venus of Milo...
...confused with Margaret Woodrow Wilson, eldest daughter of the late President, who is in the advertising business...