Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Buried in a leafy Belgian wood stands Castle Steenockerzeel, temporary residence of famed "Little Otto," son and heir of the late Austro-Hungarian Emperor Karl I, who hopes to succeed his father as King of Hungary...
...often taken to represent the opinion of a much larger body than is actually the case. Undergraduates as a rule can appreciate the fact that the Mt. Auburn St. Jesters are quite harmless and at least making an attempt to be funny even if they do not always succeed, but unfortunately such a sympathetic attitude is by no means shared by the public in general. The result is that Harvard receives too many black eyes which are, in fact, quite unmerited...
...sons, George Emlen, Philip J. and John Kean, survive him and, even as he succeeded his father to leadership of Roosevelt & Sons, so do George and Philip succeed him.* They, unlike him. how ever, have no cousin who is President...
Elected. Charles Kendall Gilbert, 51, "liberal" secretary of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of New York, sociologist; to succeed the late Herbert Shipman as diocese suffragan bishop. The result of the vote brought the diocesan convention to its feet with applause. Mrs. Gilbert watched from the organ gallery...
Hardy's life was quiet, from preference (and personal appearance). "Crushes," receptions and balls called forth no Hardy harangue but found little favor in his eyes. His only ambition was to have his poems published in a good anthology, like Palgrave's Golden Treasury. Asked to succeed the late great George Meredith as president of the Society of Authors, he wrote : "I must . . . perform the disagree able duty of acting upon my own conviction of what is for the Society's good, and tell you that I feel compelled to decline the honour." A few weeks later he accepted...