Word: bequeath
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dominique he left an estate of 6 billion francs (then $375 million), which was promptly contested by his relatives. Under French law a widow ordinarily has the use of her husband's fortune while she is alive but cannot bequeath it to anyone save a direct heir. The Guillaumes had been childless in nine years of marriage; yet now the rumor spread that, surprisingly, the beautiful Madame Guillaume was pregnant. Ten months later a baby boy appeared in her household. In 1941 she formally adopted the child, named him Jean-Pierre Guillaume, though he was often called Paulo...
...sheerest excess, its personal accent the most rioting rhetoric. For all Wolfe's great gifts, his novel was too often diminished by a craving for size, impoverished by an orgy of word-spending, made shallow by a show of philosophy. What the book had pre-eminently to bequeath to the theater was some magnificent characters, and Playwright Frings has settled for that one bequest. She has taken the people and let the purple...
...occurs to me that the best way to promote the giving of bodies by bequest would be for each physician to bequeath his own body to the school from which he graduated. In this way, he would be repaying a debt which he alone can fully pay. Furthermore, if the medical profession would lead the way, the general public would eventually follow...
...only nine states, excluding Massachusetts, permit persons legally to bequeath their bodies for experimental purposes...
This is an extension of the plan for cornea, bone and artery banks, to which individuals may bequeath parts of their bodies. While the law has not interfered with these in the U.S., many state courts have held that a man cannot use his will to dispose of his entire remains. If a relative objected, no medical school would risk public disapproval by seeking to enforce such a will. In nine states,* however, laws have been passed specifically permitting these bequests. Georgia School of Medicine has received only one body in five years as a result of this provision...