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...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...
Captivated, the childless, widowed President installed El Galleguito in the presidential residence with two tutors and a collection of fine toys. El Galleguito, cannily aware that he had no real boss but Perón, gave tutors and servants a bad time, tormented them with diabolical pranks...
...amount of fertility in the world already. He was Conservationist Fairfield (Our Plundered Planet) Osborn, who argued that the world's baby supply is sadly outstripping the food supply. Most of the delegates were in no great mood to worry. They were interested only in the problem of childless couples who want children...
...years of roaming, some of it in the U.S., his nameless narrator-hero comes back to the Piedmontese village of his boyhood. Born a bastard, he gets no prodigal's welcome, but the villagers who remember him are deferential before his hard-won rise to respectability. Wifeless and childless, he has few bonds with the future, is bent only on uncovering his links with the past...