Word: childless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wecter: "Vincent Astor, present head of the family and childless, was a phlegmatic youth . . . has become the most progressive of all the Astors-founding model farms and building model tenements for the poor, as well as running de luxe apartments and the St. Regis for the rich...
...many worries, the Army had another one added last week. Now that the war in Europe was over, the childless, 38-year-old wife of an Army private wanted her husband discharged so that she could have a baby. They were married in their middle thirties, she explained in a letter to her Congressman-"My future happiness depends on my having a child and if I am not given a chance now it will be too late. . . . If I were younger I would not be so heartbroken...
...Sever, who died a childless widower in 1941, directed in his will that $1,622,-482 of his fortune be used to establish a "technological school" in his native Missouri. As soon as the will was published, six Missouri colleges put in a claim. The Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. of Chicago, Mr. Sever's trustee, ran for cover, leaving the Cook County Court to appoint a three-man committee to interpret the will. On the premise that Mr. Sever's intention was to set up a new school and not to expand one already existing...
Divorced. By Susanna Wilson Hare, 28, chic daughter of Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (Mrs. Paul Caldwell Wil son), David Meredith Hare, 28, color photographer and surrealist sculptor; after seven years of childless marriage ; in Reno...
Hope Chest. In Dallas, Tex., a childless housewife in her middle twenties grew alarmed by the diaper shortage, laid in a supply, just in case...