Word: scionness
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...London Black George's scion said he would expose Tito by writing a book...
Died. Joseph Cardinal MacRory, 84, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland; after a brief illness; in Armagh, Northern Ireland. Scion of a lusty clan called "The Burnderries" (because in 1608 they rebelled against the British and burned London derry), the doughty Archbishop bitterly opposed the partition of Ireland. For his funeral Prime Minister Eamon de Valera said that he would go from Eire into Northern Ireland for the first time in 17 years...
Caudillo without a King. As Leopold prepared to enter Switzerland, another royal scion was asked to leave it. To the modest Lausanne villa of Don Juan, the Spanish Pretender, came two august emissaries from Generalissimo Francisco Franco. They were reported to bear the Caudillo's long deferred invitation to return to Spain. Aspiring Don Juan had waited patiently for 14 years. Perhaps it was time for him too to pack...
...Scion of "a long line of New Jersey Methodists," J. Bates Upham had emerged from the Spanish-American war as the nation's most dexterous poker player. He had learned to dance like an angel while "working" the Cunarders on the Atlantic run, and had finally emerged from Sing Sing revered as a forger and a gentleman. "I seem naturally," he told Estelle, "to prefer enterprises where a little extra risk may bring a little extra reward." Then he slipped his arm hopefully around her slim waist...
Soldier v. Non-Resister. Lord Wavell was the latest scion of a long line of soldiers. The name Wavell (spelled in 60 different ways) runs like a minor but recurring theme through a thousand years of British history. It begins with William de Vauville, a Norman kinsman of the Baron de Briquebec, who came to England with William the Conqueror. A De Vauville fought in the Crusades over the same Near East deserts where his famed descendant was to fight five centuries later. Three Wavells (the first in 1478) were Mayors of Winchester. Of a 17th Century Richard Wavell, preacher...