Word: childlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promising youngster with artistic talent, goes off to his war. Eve is knitting an olive drab sweater behind a window with a service flag when the telegram comes from the War Department. . . . Back under the old pergola from which they started so hopefully 32 years before, childless, grey-haired Eve and Chet still have plans. The house they were going to build will be built for their nephew. They are unaware that the nephew is about to leave for New York to seek his fortune. There are other things of which they are unaware. "This country is sound and sane...
...Childless and widowed, Colonel Bradley turns out the best of his horses once a year for the celebrated Orphans' Day meet at his farm. To the orphans, his guests, he is St. Edward indeed, for the meet is well attended, makes some $30,000 for charity...
Thus did swart little Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia of Greater New York (childless but the parent of a small adopted daughter) describe the economy bill finally passed in his city's behalf last week by the State Legislature, ending a conflict in which a Fusion-Republican Mayor and a Regular Democratic Governor had bucked a Tammany-influenced Legislature for 100 days (TIME...
...what was once a surfeit of young Swedish princes, only three remained in good standing last week: the Crown Prince's eldest, Gustaf Adolf, who is safely and royally married but childless; his unmarried youngest, Carl Johan; and unmarried first cousin Carl. Royalty's joke of the week was that the Bernadottes were playing "Going to Jerusalem" for the throne...
...chrome steel. Including the statue, the building will be 1,361 ft. high (Empire State: 1,248 ft.). Boris Michailovitch Iofan is one of U. S. S. R.'s best-loved architects. Dark-eyed, black-haired, his energetic, agile figure is recognized everywhere in Moscow. Married and childless, he lives in a modern four-room apartment for which he pays 60 rubles per month (including telephone, radio, gas & light). He keeps one maid. To those who knew his work, his design for the Palace of the Soviets came as no surprise, for he learned most of his profession...