Word: childlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany. In the "more babies" campaign decreed last week the Government: 1) announced "motherhood" bonuses of from $53 to $80 for first-born and higher premiums for succeeding children; 2) doubled the penalties for abortion and increased those on obscene literature; 3) slapped a tax on bachelors and childless families; 4) increased the tax on alcohol to pay for the campaign. This year's appropriation to pay for the "Code of the French Family" was 9,000,000,000 francs...
...agencies choose parents with great care, usually prefer couples around 30 years of age who are in good health, have secure incomes and sunny dispositions and homes. Although there is no rule against giving children to well-settled single persons, the demand for children far exceeds the supply and childless couples have first choice. Greatest difficulty agencies have is discouraging people over 50, who insist on adopting infants. Average age of foster parents, however, is around 40, since most persons wait for adoption until they are convinced that they can have no children of their own. Great- est favorites...
...embassy secretary in London during the War, worked on the peace treaties afterwards. He was consul-general in Manhattan from 1931 to 1934, with homes in Greenwich, Conn, and on Park Avenue. Golf is his game; drinking and smoking are not among his vices. Both he and his wife (childless) are Christians. It is now fashionable in Japan to exhibit Chinese culture. The Horinouchis go in for paintings and porcelain. They are sophisticated in Occidental music...
...year. That rate will remain, but to make conscription of manpower more palatable to the lower classes, the Government also made a gesture of conscripting wealth. Surtaxes on incomes from $10,000 to $40,000 were raised 5%, on those above $40,000, 10%. Sample taxes: on a childless married man's income...
Because ten-year-old Willie Sprague quarantined and the only magazine mother would let him read was the Yot Companion, which Willie considered "namby-pamby." Willie's devoted uncle, childless Griffith Ogden Ellis, thought up the more virile American Boy and began editing it in Detroit in 1899. Editor Ellis printed red-blooded features and fiction,* kept editing his magazine for a schoolboy Willie while Willie grew to manhood. The War killed Willie Sprague...