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...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...
...which can develop only into drones (another odd bee characteristic). The bee men rear these parthenogenetic males to maturity. Then they use one of them to inseminate artificially the same, still-virgin queen. Thereafter her eggs are fertile and develop into females (workers or queens) fathered by her own fatherless...
...fatherless family moved to the grimy city of Leeds. Young Read attended a spartan city school whose only romanticism lay in the library's collection of Rider Haggard. At 15, he became a bank clerk (at ?20 a year) and a "true-blue Tory," at 17 a disciple of Alfred Tennyson and William Blake. At 22, he was swept off to World War I-stopping off long enough in London to hand a publisher his first volume of poems...
Friend of the fatherless...
Comfortably curled up on Mickey's couch, contentedly licking herself, lay a beautiful black cat and five kittens to whom she had just given birth. Dismayed at finding this abandoned, fatherless family in his abode, Rooney at once suspected Franco W. Peabody, 3rd '46, notorious for picking up stray cats, and accused him of the blackguardly deed...