Word: childlessness
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...Girard spent millions bolstering the U.S. Government during the War of 1812. He lent President Monroe $40,000 to pay off his personal debts, helped Joseph Bonaparte set up a court in exile, dribbled away thousands to anyone with a hard-luck story. When he died in 1831, the childless old man left $6,000,000 to found a school for fatherless boys...
Elizabeth Coles, his wife, to whom he had been married for 25 years, died in 1927, leaving him childless. He married a widow with three children-Katherine Boyce Tupper, the daughter of a minister. He performed a soldier's between-wars chores, teaching in officers' schools, doing routine military housekeeping, and, wherever he happened to be, cultivating the vegetable gardens which were his hobby. In 1937 he was in command of the sth Infantry Brigade at desolate Vancouver Barracks, Wash., when three Russian aviators startled the world by flying from Europe to America over the North Pole. They...
...Earth-Bathing, he sat naked in a pit of earth while explaining how much better it made his skin and blood feel. The big feature was the Celestial Bed, which would "rectify such physical impediments as impotence and sterility." To use it for a night, with unascertained results, a childless duke paid Graham a fee of 500 guineas...
...Indianapolis last week Garbage Collector Noah Bowman reported one day's take: one unopened 24-lb. sack of flour, one whole cantaloupe, half a chicken, an unopened loaf of bread, an 8-lb. slab of bacon. Worst offenders: childless couples, who cut two pieces out of a pie and discard the rest. Worst periods: after holidays...
Meanwhile, the AVC Housing office reports itself defuged by requests for space. Seventy childless couples, plus 15 more who have children, are seeking living quarters in the Cambridge area. According to John A. Quisenberry '46, chairman of the housing group, "the situation is very dark" and probably will not improve until February...