Word: childlessness
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...Bitchery. Lamiel was to begin her life in an orphanage, become a Parisian courtesan, marry a duke, and die the mistress of a robber-chief. From autumn 1839 to spring 1842 Stendhal sketched the outline of her progress from rags to riches. He described her adoption by a childless couple, her entry as a servant-companion into the household of a duchess, her initiation into the facts of upper-class life, i.e., mingled boredom, bitchery, fear and arrogance. He did portraits of varying completeness of the men in her life, ranging from a Machiavellian, hunchbacked doctor to a simple Norman...
Died. Eric Spencer Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, the ninth Earl Fitzwilliam, 68, whose title and ?1,000,000 ($2,800,000) fortune were the plums last year in one of England's costliest court actions; of heart disease; in Oakham, England. The childless peer's second cousin, Capt. W.T.G.W. ("Tom") Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, became next in line when Tom's older brother, George J. ("Toby") Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, failed to prove that his dashing Royal Horse Guards father was properly married to his actress mother before Toby was born...
...next to his. She was a student in his first chemistry class at Bryn Mawr, where he taught after studying at Williams and Harvard. They have written six books together--a bulky Fieser and Fieser sooner or later adorns the bookshelf of every Harvard Chemistry major. The Fiesers are childless, but they own two Siamese cats. The elder cat was named "Syn K. Pooh," after Synthetic Vitamin K, which Fieser first synthesized; and the younger was named "J.G. Pooh" after Jellied Gasoline (now Known as Napalm), also developed by Fieser. "I wanted to name him Napalm, but the name...
...assumed kingship, making Mary the only feminine King in English history. Actually, Mary, a dutiful, intelligent woman who added a touch of respectability to a loose age, did little except serve and adore her stern, taciturn, unfaithful but capable husband. Like Mary I and Elizabeth, she died childless...
...shortly after his wife became a Catholic, Goethe entered the church himself. His bishop, the Rt. Rev. Albert Stohr of Mainz, asked special permission from the Pope for Goethe to become a priest while continuing to live with Frau Goethe, "as brother & sister." The Goethes, who are childless, expect to live in Mainz, where Goethe will do organizational work with groups of converts...