Word: childlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christmas Day 1872, childless Johns Hopkins contemplated the end of his life and the division of his wealth. He had already written his will giving $3,500,000 to found Johns Hopkins Hospital and $3,500,000 to found Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. During the following Lent he addressed an imperious letter to twelve leading Baltimore men. In that letter he revealed the tender core of his heart. Wrote he: "The indigent sick of this city and its environs, without regard to sex, age, or color, who may require surgical or medical treatment, and who can be received into...
...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...