Word: childlessness
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...Childless and widowed, Colonel Bradley turns out the best of his horses once a year for the celebrated Orphans' Day meet at his farm. To the orphans, his guests, he is St. Edward indeed, for the meet is well attended, makes some $30,000 for charity...
Thus did swart little Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia of Greater New York (childless but the parent of a small adopted daughter) describe the economy bill finally passed in his city's behalf last week by the State Legislature, ending a conflict in which a Fusion-Republican Mayor and a Regular Democratic Governor had bucked a Tammany-influenced Legislature for 100 days (TIME...
...what was once a surfeit of young Swedish princes, only three remained in good standing last week: the Crown Prince's eldest, Gustaf Adolf, who is safely and royally married but childless; his unmarried youngest, Carl Johan; and unmarried first cousin Carl. Royalty's joke of the week was that the Bernadottes were playing "Going to Jerusalem" for the throne...
...chrome steel. Including the statue, the building will be 1,361 ft. high (Empire State: 1,248 ft.). Boris Michailovitch Iofan is one of U. S. S. R.'s best-loved architects. Dark-eyed, black-haired, his energetic, agile figure is recognized everywhere in Moscow. Married and childless, he lives in a modern four-room apartment for which he pays 60 rubles per month (including telephone, radio, gas & light). He keeps one maid. To those who knew his work, his design for the Palace of the Soviets came as no surprise, for he learned most of his profession...
...power by dictating who should be board chairman of the biggest bank in the Midwest (see p. 43). But colossi often have foot-trouble and Jesse Jones's 6 ft. 3 in. is no exception. On the days when he works ten or twelve hours-a habit his childless wife, whom he married when he was 46, has not been able to break him of-his feet bother him. An earthy humorist, he likes to tell stories on his feet. Once he leaned out of his car in Manhattan and startled a policeman by enquiring in a soft drawl...