Word: scions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With sherifian majesty, Sidi Mohamed Ben Moulay Youssef Ben Moulay El-Hassan-Scion of the Prophet, Commander of the Faithful, Sultan of Morocco-singed the mustache of the Dictator of Spain. From the international court in Tangier he dismissed Judge Fernando Malmussi, a Fascist loyd to Benito Mussolini. With equal majesty, he appointed an anti-Fascist Italian to sit with a Briton, a Frenchman and a Spaniard-thereby giving the court an anti-Fascist majority. The new judge was Giovanni Apostoli, recommended by the Bonomi Government with the approval of London and Paris...
...German armored-force corporal nabbed by a U.S. 1st Division patrol hastened to tell his captors that he was no ordinary prisoner. He was, in fact, a soothsayer, scion of a long line of Bavarian seers...
Sing, O Goddess, the wrath of Achilles, scion of Peleus, Ruinous wrath, that afflicted with numberless woes the Achaeans...
Divorced. Horace Elgin Dodge Jr., 44, auto scion; by Martha ("Mickey") Devine Dodge, 31, ex-Vanities girl; after, four years of married high life; in Reno. The settlement (according to her attorney): "closer to a million than $500,000." This brought Dodge's total settlements, after three marriages, reputedly close to three million...
...Harding quotes the volume Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry for a description of this curious scion of a wild boar and a native highland sow. The pig was "a tall, loose species, with legs of an unusual length, with no flesh, short ears, as if they had been cropped, and with long faces of a highly intellectual cast. They were also of such activity -that few greyhounds could clear a ditch or cross a field with more agility or speed. Their backs formed a rainbow arch, capable of being contracted or extended to an inconceivable degree...