Word: childless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mother of two lovely children, and I'm expecting a third, all of them conceived artificially. It was only after several years of childless marriage that my husband and I discovered, to our astonishment, that he was sterile. Had it not been for the sympathetic cooperation of a certain obstetrician we would have had to remain childless, and thus ruin our whole future happiness, or else undertake the difficult and uncertain business of adoption-an alternative which is full of psychological problems for both parents and children, and certainly no completely satisfactory substitute for bearing and raising your...
...things that doctors say about childless women just aren't so, thinks British Gynecologist John Stallworthy. He studied the first 1,000 women who went to Oxford's Fertility Clinic (founded in 1943), reported his findings in the issue of the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the British Empire that reached the U.S. last week...
...Girard spent millions bolstering the U.S. Government during the War of 1812. He lent President Monroe $40,000 to pay off his personal debts, helped Joseph Bonaparte set up a court in exile, dribbled away thousands to anyone with a hard-luck story. When he died in 1831, the childless old man left $6,000,000 to found a school for fatherless boys...
Elizabeth Coles, his wife, to whom he had been married for 25 years, died in 1927, leaving him childless. He married a widow with three children-Katherine Boyce Tupper, the daughter of a minister. He performed a soldier's between-wars chores, teaching in officers' schools, doing routine military housekeeping, and, wherever he happened to be, cultivating the vegetable gardens which were his hobby. In 1937 he was in command of the sth Infantry Brigade at desolate Vancouver Barracks, Wash., when three Russian aviators startled the world by flying from Europe to America over the North Pole. They...
...Earth-Bathing, he sat naked in a pit of earth while explaining how much better it made his skin and blood feel. The big feature was the Celestial Bed, which would "rectify such physical impediments as impotence and sterility." To use it for a night, with unascertained results, a childless duke paid Graham a fee of 500 guineas...