Word: childlessness
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...resale value of the English peerage is going up. In Lloyd George's hey day it seems that the requisites for the peerage were the combination of a million pounds and a generous nature and either bachelor hood or a childless marriage. But Mr. Baldwin has effected a change. When he leaves office he may be the only Prime Minister for a century who has left the House of Lords reduced in size. Distinguished records in the colonies and large London bank balances are going unrecognized. Feeling runs strong for a higher peerage turnover...
...Virginia Clem, died childless...
...secluded office. They make good stories. The "trouble" is nearly always sex. Last year, 1,000 girls came to him; 800 "had not let mother in on the secret." In one case, the Judge will personally arrange for the baby to be smuggled away at birth to a childless couple. In another, he will summon a proud citizen and make him agree to let his son marry the grocer's daughter. Almost always he fixes it. But, in 26 years, he has found that what happens sexually is so different from the current sex-mores that he has finally...
...side-light on the number of offspring of University alumni is afforded by Professor J. C. Phillips, nationally known genetic expert, who says, "It is worthy of note that the number of children born to Yale graduates is almost constantly higher than that for Harvard, while the number of childless marriages is slightly less...
Gallienne scored a success in this Ibsen play last year. A builder of churches, turned bitter against God, concentrates thereafter upon homes for human beings. Fired by the love of a young woman who has sought him out in his childless house, h.9 builds one of these homes with high towers reaching up to the clouds. The master, builder even climbs to the top of his own creation, unfurls the flag at its summit, vindicates his courage before detractors below, before God above, before the woman he loves. His audacity spells his downfall. Miss Le Gallienne is also audacious...