Word: childlessness
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...that petulant, sardonic little (5 ft. 4 in.) Adams, for all his quirks and squints, had many friends. His red brick Richardsonian mansion on Washington's H Street, completed, after his wife's death in 1885, was often full of guests (said he: "I run a hotel"). Childless himself, he took great interest in his nieces & nephews, and played "Uncle Henry" and year-round Santa Claus to other youngsters, especially those of his crony, Secretary of State John...
...couple in seven is childless, yet in most cases they want children. Why can't they have them? Last week a recently opened clinic in Cleveland, one of 38 in the U.S., was trying to find the answer...
...Vining, a Quaker graduate of Germantown Friends School and Bryn Mawr (cum laude), once taught English at a girls' school, library science at the University of North Carolina. In recent years she has written historical romances and biographies for teenagers. A childless widow, she publishes under her maiden name, Elizabeth Janet Gray...
What he meant he made clear in his will. If a nephew proved childless, then his property would go to the "United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among...
Smithson died in 1829; his nephew died childless in 1835. The U.S. got the money ($508,318.46 in gold sovereigns), and finally in 1846 set up the Institution. The bequest was large for those days, and with better luck or backing, the Smithsonian might have become the nation's scientific center. But it got no heavy support from the Government or anyone else. For the current fiscal year the Government appropriated $1,452,512 and most of this was earmarked for nonscientific custodial work...