Word: childlessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Returning to Madrid with his bride, King Alfonso XII, who had been a childless widower, swiftly begot two daughters, but died in 1885 without knowing whether or not he had begotten a son. Three months passed. The elder daughter, Maria de las Mercedes, 5, was then a Queen-Babe under her mother's regency. Suddenly the royal physicians proclaimed, amid prodigious Spanish rejoicings, that the Queen Mother was certainly with child. Thereafter excitement was intense and betting unrestrained. Would it be a mere girl, or was there actually stirring in the royal widow a KING...
...weekly with Gustave Flaubert, Edmond de Goncourt, Alphonse Daudet, Ivan Turgeniev. He was famed, fat crammed with food. He worked incessantly ? news articles, plays, novels. His villa at Medan. outside Paris, grew in bulk and reputation. Its owner was excoriated, saluted, accused, defended. Madame Zola remained childless...
...insults are deadlier than to tell a male that he is not a man. Yet last week precisely this insult was hurled at Italian bachelors and childless husbands by Benito Mussolini, begettor of a daughter, Edda, and three sons: Bruno, Vittorio, Romano...
Capt. Hermann Koehl is a veteran pilot of the War, shot down twice by the French, taken prisoner the second time only to escape from a prison camp and make a tortuous way back to Germany. He is 40, married but childless, is old for a pilot. "Blind flying," night flying so essential to a transatlantic pilot, is his specialty...
...Grace Mailhouse Burnham, attractive at 37, considered herself capable of being a better-than-average mother. Her husband, a retired distiller associated with the soap firm of B. T. Babbitt in Manhattan, died four years ago leaving her childless. Quietly she selected "a young man of good family and good character with the proper eugenic background'' to be the father of her child. "There was nothing which approached promiscuity" in their relationship, she said. The young man, after performing his function as eugenic husband, quietly stepped out of her life. A fortnight ago at the Lying-in Hospital...