Word: childlessly
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...possibly, friends say, because even in its happiest days Alicia was still closer to her father than to her husband. Wherever he went-to visit Britain's Lord Beaverbrook, to roam New York's subways or to inspect the drought areas of the Southwest-she went along. Childless, and with little to occupy her but New York's fast social life, she regularly did the rounds of raucous nightclubs and the more discreet Park Avenue and Long Island parties...
...main, the story follows the book. Sinuhe (Edmund Purdom), infant son of the Pharaoh's wife, is set adrift in a reed boat on the Nile, victim of a palace plot against his mother. Rescued by a childless couple, he is raised as their son, learns the healing arts of his stepfather, a physician. Coming of age, Sinuhe meets a young soldier (Victor Mature), and together they save the life of the new Pharaoh Akhnaton (Michael Wilding) when he is attacked by a lion in the desert...
...directorial colleagues of a quarter-century hand him a humiliating surprise. Instead of making him managing director of New Central Electric Co., they jump an accounting whiz-kid over his head and hand Ravenstreet the consolation prize of production chief. Fed up, fiftyish and rich, Ravenstreet resigns. A childless widower with a bad marriage behind him. he holes up with his books at first, then starts roving the nightclubs, even beds down for a joyless hour with an opulent blonde...
...dirty city. The streets were choked with mud and refuse, and the stench could be smelled two miles outside the city gates. Here, a nobleman lived on a grand scale. A bachelor might have "37 servants, of whom five are the personal attendants of the five senior servants." A childless couple might manage with 65 or so servants, but would require several more if there were children. The nobles, to the extent of their means, aped the King's style of living, and the bourgeois aped and sometimes outdid the nobles...
...envoy to Israel." On occasion, the rumors backfire. Once she made the mistake of crossing pens with Rival Columnist Austine ("Bootsie") Hearst of the Times-Herald, erroneously reported that Austine, six months after the birth of one child, was expecting another. Austine retaliated with her own equally erroneous item: childless Evie Gordon was "at long last . . . expecting" (TIME...