Word: childlessness
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Victor Lawson, builder of the Chicago Daily News, who died last August, was very different from Frank A. Munsey; but they were alike in being heirless. Mr. Munsey never married. Mr. Lawson's wife, childless, became an eccentric recluse. Both men realized the difficulty of passing on titanic newspaper properties. Mr. Munsey consulted friends. Mr. Lawson consulted nobody. Soon after his funeral, when the will was taken out of Mr. Lawson's vault, at the Illinois Merchants Trust Co., it was found that the Bank had been made trustee of the Daily News, which...
Rama VI, King of Siam, having issued a decree "demoting" his childless Queen (TIME, Oct. 26), blazoned another edict in the Siamese Official Gazette last week, and "promoted" handsome Chao Chom Suvadena to that rank...
Certain cables have stated that "London is puzzled by the decree." Bankok is not. The demoted Queen is childless...
...Englishman than a Norwegian; he takes after the family of his mother (Princess Maud of England) more than that of his father. Both these young people are descended from the French General of Napoleon the Great's time, General Bernadotte, who was adopted as heir by the childless King of Sweden [becoming King Charles XIV, 1818-1844]. Prince Olaf of Norway is said to have inherited the shrewd and clever brain of his grandfather, King Edward VII of England, while his first cousin, the Prince of Wales, has inherited Edward VII's social tact and charm...
...Bancroft was a childless widower...