Word: progenitor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Avenue town house. Intelligent observers who visit the Milles work this winter will have no trouble in dividing the subjects into two groups. First group exemplifies a tortured Norse brooding. Prime example is the central figure from the Folkunga Fountain at Linkoping, commemorating the legendary Swedish hero Folke Filbyter, progenitor of the royal Swedish house of Folkungarna. According to legend. Folke was a harsh man who incurred the wrath of the Church. Monks spirited his grand son away. For years Folke roamed the countryside on horseback, looking for the boy. After 24 years, as he was dying, he found...
...custom of laying down board walks annually during the winter season is half a century old. It was instituted by the Corporation in 1880 largely because of student agitation end of the editorial policies of the CRIMSON and its progenitor, the Magenta, whose columns for seven years warmly espoused the movement for plank walks. The first issue of the Magenta, appearing on January 24, 1873, contained the following editorial: "We wish the College would lay plank walks in the yard: As we wade through our classic enclosure on the sloppy days of the January thaw, or, when the signal...
...that first-rate plays become second-rate musicomedies.? Oldtime theatregoers who remember that lush melodrama The Bird of Paradise?in which Lenore Ulric, Laurette Taylor, Lewis Stone, Guy Bates Post once took part?did not find Arthur Hammerstein's florid musical adaptation, Luana, as successful entertainment as its progenitor. Tediously faithful to the original plot in which a princess of the Sandwich Islands marries a young U. S. doctor, only to lose him and destroy herself in a volcano as a sacrifice to her people, Producer Hammerstein has given his show an exceedingly dull and majestic pace...
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...