Word: childless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Self-revealed, Leske is: 1) a mental twelve-year-old with a craving for speed and action; 2) a childless adolescent who had no sex experience until some time after he had been destroying other men's children; 3) a pulp-paper brain which listens only to the war communiqués on the radio, hates music, has to make an effort even to read the recollections of German War Ace Fritz Udet; 4) a cultural blank registering only the slogans of the Nazi leaders; 5) a historical illiterate knowing nothing about the history of other countries...
...carefree way in which the reporter, Roger Adams (Mr. Grant), and the music-store salesgirl, Julie (Miss Dunne), inaugurate their marriage is blasted by a Tokyo earthquake which injures her and leaves them facing a childless future. They return to the States, where Roger buys a small-town newspaper. Their life together is unhappily aimless until they adopt an orphaned infant and encounter the problems of parenthood...
...Most of the women with spurious pregnancy are in their early 30s, are childless, and eager for offspring. They may go from doctor to doctor hoping for encouragement, even prepare baby clothes. Some of them have later gone through a normal pregnancy; in some cases they started in the midst of a spurious pregnancy...
Last week a newspaper drama hinged on whether Mrs. Abbott No. 2 could prove her race. In Chicago a cousin of childless Publisher Abbott filed petition to oust Mrs. Abbott from the Abbott estate and control of the waning Defender. Grounds: that she is white, hence was illegally married six years ago in Indiana (whose laws prohibit miscegenation...
Recently Mr. Schock, 75, became concerned about the future of 1) his business, 2) his money. Though married, he is childless. Moreover, he believes that the system of inheritance is unChristian. "If we abolish all inheritance of property and if we fixed a limit to earning power," he often said, "we would be able to solve all our economic problems. . . . After reasonable provision for women & children, a man's estate should go to the general welfare...