Word: childlessness
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...Most of the women with spurious pregnancy are in their early 30s, are childless, and eager for offspring. They may go from doctor to doctor hoping for encouragement, even prepare baby clothes. Some of them have later gone through a normal pregnancy; in some cases they started in the midst of a spurious pregnancy...
Last week a newspaper drama hinged on whether Mrs. Abbott No. 2 could prove her race. In Chicago a cousin of childless Publisher Abbott filed petition to oust Mrs. Abbott from the Abbott estate and control of the waning Defender. Grounds: that she is white, hence was illegally married six years ago in Indiana (whose laws prohibit miscegenation...
Recently Mr. Schock, 75, became concerned about the future of 1) his business, 2) his money. Though married, he is childless. Moreover, he believes that the system of inheritance is unChristian. "If we abolish all inheritance of property and if we fixed a limit to earning power," he often said, "we would be able to solve all our economic problems. . . . After reasonable provision for women & children, a man's estate should go to the general welfare...
Bone and Gristle. Fifty-year-old George is childless, disinclined to marry again. Once he was reported engaged to the Countess of Craven. The Countess' mother denied the rumor, but added: "I may state, however, that my daughter and the King of Greece have been close friends for about 15 years." A year before that, while Edward VIII was cruising in the Adriatic, King George invited him to dine with him-"alone." Cousin Edward arrived with Mrs. Simpson. A few days later Edward invited Cousin George to dine with him alone. George arrived with his friend...
...childless glue king's will, 19 words written in 1910, left half the U. S. animal glue industry to his widow, Alice E. (Woodward) Wilhelm. Last week, as the sorrow and confusion in the company subsided, she was elected chairman of Peter Cooper Corp.'s board. Chosen president was William J. Gunnell, Buffalo accountant and recently executive vice president. An outdoors man, he has made bird collections for Buffalo's Museum of Natural Sciences. To newsmen looking for a new glue king, Accountant Gunnell offered a silence worthy of his predecessor. The chairman, it was explained...