Word: childlessness
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...East Hampton, L. I. is the Seabury summer home. He plays golf rather badly at the Maidstone Club. He is married, childless. He was touring Europe with his wife when suddenly and to his surprise he received his Appellate Division appointment last year. It was given him for the simple reason that he is the city's greatest authority on its lower courts...
...that knows not God and prides itself in this ignorance; . . . its penitentiaries, enlarged and yet overcrowded; juvenile crime . . . divorce, with states like Nevada and Arkansas feverishly competing in the effort to make divorce easier, quicker and cheaper; apostles of free love and loose moral leaders . . . quicksand of companionate marriage, childless families . . . collapse of family felicity; our business world with its fraud and connivance . . . professional impurity . . . commercialized vice...
...June 15); an estate estimated at $100,000,000. Of this $1,000,000 goes to his son John Mortimer Schiff, $750,000 to his daughter Mrs. Dorothy Schiff Hall, $250,000 to her husband Richard Brown West Hall (to revert to the residuary estate should the Halls die childless). To philanthropic and educational institutions goes $1.001,000, of which $500,000 is for the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies, $100,000 for the Boy Scouts of America (of which Banker Schiff was elected president three weeks before he died), $50,000 to his alma mater, Amherst...
...Tudor library in Manhattan's 63rd Street hangs a portrait of his greatgrandfather, Samuel Seabury. first Anglican Bishop in America. He is married, childless, owns a summer home at East Hampton, L. I. When his inquisitorial duties began, he assembled his assistants ?whom he calls "my young men"?and told them: "We must divorce [this investigation] as far as possible from legalistic machinery. There is more eloquence in the testimony of an illiterate witness telling of oppression suffered from legal processes than in the greatest sermon, editorial or address ever written...
...solemn, psychoanalytical excursion into a midwest university town, demonstrating that Main Street has as many civilized perplexities as Park Avenue. It has to do with the appearance of a distinguished Canadian doctor (Herbert Marshall) at the university as a summer lecturer. He resides at the home of a childless, exquisite, subtly dissatisfied young matron (Zita Johann). He perceives that she is "an artist without an art," and, more particularly, a woman without a child. He recommends that she adopt one. But they become lovers and, when the doctor leaves for a pilgrimage to Europe, his hostess is pregnant...