Word: childlessness
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...Childless for 20 years were a rich & pious couple of Nazareth named Joachim and Hannah (Anne). Repulsed from the temple for his childlessness, Joachim one day went out into the mountains and groaned before his God. When Hannah learned why Joachim did not come home she, too, cried to the Lord to take away her curse, promising her child to His service. To Hannah at home, to Joachim in the mountains appeared angels, promising that their prayer would be answered, their child be blessed by all the world. Then Hannah conceived, gave birth to a daughter whom she named Miriam...
...until last week, of how a handsome apology enabled great concord to grow out of the furious spat in Geneva last May between glacial, correct British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon and humorous, mercurial French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou. Knowing nothing of Sir John's deep sorrow at his childless second marriage,* M. Barthou lapsed accidentally into offering a deadly insult to Sir John. The issue was a plan not devised by the Briton but to which he had given approval. "It seems, Sir John," flashed M. Barthou, "that you are a better godfather than you are a father...
...ominous rumble ran through the room as Dr. Dearborn, happily married but childless, plunged on: "If my own son or daughter came to me for advice, I would not advise them against premarital relations. Nine-tenths of all the men I know don't care whether their wives were virgins before they were married...
...makes the round trip but must be sacrificed in sight of her native land because of Argentina's rigid quarantine against all imported cattle. Don Ezequiel sailed for Biarritz last month, regarding the new plant as perhaps the last important milestone in his publishing career. Childless, he turned his responsibilities over to his nephew, youthful Dr. Alberto Gainza Paz, whom he carefully tutored as he himself had been trained by Founder José. So puny in boyhood that he was not expected to live. Dr. Gainza made of himself one of the foremost amateur athletes in Buenos Aires...
...promising youngster with artistic talent, goes off to his war. Eve is knitting an olive drab sweater behind a window with a service flag when the telegram comes from the War Department. . . . Back under the old pergola from which they started so hopefully 32 years before, childless, grey-haired Eve and Chet still have plans. The house they were going to build will be built for their nephew. They are unaware that the nephew is about to leave for New York to seek his fortune. There are other things of which they are unaware. "This country is sound and sane...