Word: childless
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...Esthetically a childless woman loses all floridity," added the Dictator. "The skin loses all its color, the tired look in the eye; marks the lack of internal light Contrarily with the women who are entirely women! you see them radiant, full of that beauty which reflects a love that satisfies...
...Bangkok thick-lipped, domineering Premier Phya Bahol promptly sent emissaries to offer the Throne to childless Prajadhipok's 11-year-old nephew, elf-faced Prince Ananda Mahidol, whose late father, a loyal Harvardman, resided for years in Cambridge's Brattle Inn. Last week Elfin Prince Ananda was at school in Lausanne, Switzerland when the Siamese Minister to Paris arrived to tell his mother that her son may be King of Siam...
...lived in hermit-like sociability, 50 yards away from him, until the War. Fowler liked to work sitting in the door of his cottage, dressed in football jersey and shorts. At 50 Fowler quietly married a middle-aged hospital superintendent, as garrulous as he was taciturn. Their marriage was childless, happy, Darby-&-Joanish...
...Angeles, a fair-sized mob gathered to celebrate the 75th birthday next month of "Grandma Ellen" Minkler. Present were Son Ray and eight grandchildren, Son J. Frank and eleven, Son George and three. Daughter Bessie and ten, childless Daughter Elsie Pearl, all the husbands and wives except childless Daughter Elsie Pearl's husband, 19 of the grandchildren's children. Total: 77. Grandson Ross Minkler, pastor of the Church of God of Los Angeles, has 100 kinsmen in his congregation. There has been but one death in Grandma Ellen's family in 26 years. That was her husband...
...London last week Death, in the form of pneumonia, came to George Allardice Riddell, First Baron of Walton Heath. Lord Riddell left neither title nor barony. He was childless and the seat of his title was one bare room at his suburban golf club. Thus abruptly came an end to the career of an amiable British gentleman who was one of the most successful publishers the world has ever known...