Word: childless
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Robert I. Miller might have been a standard heroine of woman's magazine fiction. At 42, she was childless, energetic, still handsome in a full-blown silver-blond fashion, and married to a man 25 years her senior. She was all nerves. Since her husband was one of Washington's most successful criminal lawyers, she yearned for a suburban home in fashionable Chevy Chase, Md. But Robert Ingersoll Miller, 67, onetime law partner of the late Vice President Charles Curtis, good friend of Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt, preferred to stay in the drab Victorian brown-brick house...
...church's hydrotherapeutic institution at Battle Creek in 1876. Bored by oatmeal, in 1895 he boiled and rolled wheat, pronounced the flakes fine, in 1906 he sold his $250,000 interest in their manufacture to his brother, famed Will Keith ("Corn Flakes") Kellogg. John Harvey Kellogg and his childless wife brought up 40-odd foster children, inspired his onetime patient W. C. Post to the discovery of Postum and Post Toasties. Recent Kellogg health rule: ". . . eat less breakfast foods . . . and more potatoes...
...Draw. Montana's Senator Burton K. Wheeler had fought for a sharp-toothed bill which would save every pre-Pearl Harbor father from the draft until the last childless man in the U.S. had been inducted. As finally amended and signed by the President, the bill was well-intentioned and toothless: fathers will be kept at the bottom of draft lists so long as this does not affect "the orderly flow of men into the armed forces...
...belted N.M.U. harder or more consistently than Columnist Pegler. He has pictured N.M.U. as a Communist cell attempting to convert all of U.S. labor; has accused Joe Curran of draft dodging. (Curran, married but childless, was deferred as an essential worker, i.e., labor leader.) But what most infuriated N.M.U.ers-who boil over at the mere mention of Pegler's sleeping-car first name-was the columnist's revival of the old scuttlebutt, repeatedly and officially denied, that U.S. merchant sailors mutinied at Guadalcanal...
Confucianism places filial piety high among the cardinal virtues. Failure to produce a male descendant is the gravest of filial omissions. For 2,300 years men have avoided impiety by taking a concubine when a wife remains-childless or bears only daughters. If a man puts off the choosing of a "Little Star," friends may urge him delicately. Until the 1930s it was even thought a charming virtue in a wife to press a "Little Star" upon a husband who, at 40, had no sons...