Word: childless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...directorial colleagues of a quarter-century hand him a humiliating surprise. Instead of making him managing director of New Central Electric Co., they jump an accounting whiz-kid over his head and hand Ravenstreet the consolation prize of production chief. Fed up, fiftyish and rich, Ravenstreet resigns. A childless widower with a bad marriage behind him. he holes up with his books at first, then starts roving the nightclubs, even beds down for a joyless hour with an opulent blonde...
...dirty city. The streets were choked with mud and refuse, and the stench could be smelled two miles outside the city gates. Here, a nobleman lived on a grand scale. A bachelor might have "37 servants, of whom five are the personal attendants of the five senior servants." A childless couple might manage with 65 or so servants, but would require several more if there were children. The nobles, to the extent of their means, aped the King's style of living, and the bourgeois aped and sometimes outdid the nobles...
...envoy to Israel." On occasion, the rumors backfire. Once she made the mistake of crossing pens with Rival Columnist Austine ("Bootsie") Hearst of the Times-Herald, erroneously reported that Austine, six months after the birth of one child, was expecting another. Austine retaliated with her own equally erroneous item: childless Evie Gordon was "at long last . . . expecting" (TIME...
...fell (1942), governed India as viceroy (1943-47). His fate had been to fight the early delaying actions when Britain was behind. Fighting for the Empire, he had lost an eye; his son had lost a hand in World War II. The son died last week unmarried and childless-the last of the Wavell line. The title, which the major was only the second to hold, is now extinct...
...Roman Catholic women of England who are in the same situation to march to the house of the Archbishop of Canterbury and demand that he prove that our church does grant annulments to "those it particularly desires to please?" We all may then perhaps remarry, and those childless ones like myself may probably arrange to be "pleased...