Word: childless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What he meant he made clear in his will. If a nephew proved childless, then his property would go to the "United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among...
Smithson died in 1829; his nephew died childless in 1835. The U.S. got the money ($508,318.46 in gold sovereigns), and finally in 1846 set up the Institution. The bequest was large for those days, and with better luck or backing, the Smithsonian might have become the nation's scientific center. But it got no heavy support from the Government or anyone else. For the current fiscal year the Government appropriated $1,452,512 and most of this was earmarked for nonscientific custodial work...
...Wine, New Bottles. Most of the actual work of running the new winery, along with Di Giorgio Fruit, has fallen on the heirs apparent to the fruit empire, four of the childless little king's nephews. All told, they boss dozens of enterprises (orchards in the Sacramento Valley, a cannery and 8,000 acres of citrus groves in Florida, a box factory in Oregon, etc.), which netted $4,212,000 last year...
...story: a childless young actress (Maureen O'Hara), married to a successful young producer (John Payne), takes in a little girl from an orphanage. Shortly thereafter she dies from a heart attack, leaving the weeping child to the care of the bereaved foster father. Then matters become totally lachrymose: the foster father does not want the child, but the child wants him. Even cheerful, extrovert William Bendix, knotting his Neanderthal brow, has a hard time making everybody stop crying...
Cassini: "The present head of the American Astor clan is Vincent, childless, twice-married, phlegmatic and serious-minded. He founded model farms and builds model tenements for the poor, and runs de luxe apartments and the St. Regis for the rich...