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But if he sinned against his daughter and her gender by giving his Wunderkind son-in-law the controlling interest in the Post (no man should have to work for his wife, the old man said), then Graham surely sinned against her eldest child, journalist Lally, for handing the keys to the Washington Post Co. to the younger Donald.
France, dubbed by the pope “eldest daughter of the Church,” took the lead in the Crusades against the “infidels” in Palestine, stopping off on the way across Europe to massacre heretics and infidels.
While only a teen-ager, he became responsible, as the eldest son, for his siblings.
"The good Lord called upon them to sacrifice their eldest child, as a sign of their faith.
The story told how Prince William, Prince Charles' eldest son, had had a broken finger reset after a first attempt to fix it failed.