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...trouper friends, passes out in the arms of Michael Michailow (Basil Rathbone), a melancholy musician perennially bent on seduction. When Leonide finds Vera in Michailow's apartment he jumps heavily at the worst conclusion, promptly divorces her and takes her baby daughter. Years later Daughter Lisa (Jane Bryan), fatherless now and unaware that Vera is her mother, is escorted into a cabaret one night by villainous Michailow. There Vera, who wears a blonde wig and works as an entertainer, spies them. With her maternal instincts at boiling point, she seizes a handy revolver, riddles Michailow with steely questions...
...strength," lived to learn that his strength was not great enough. When young Ljot of Iceland arrived at Vadin on a timber-buying expedition, old Gunnar made him welcome, was not adamant when 20-year-old Ljot soon wanted to marry his only daughter. Ljot was a fatherless, headstrong, impulsive Viking. At 13 he had killed his father's murderer, become widely known both for his deeds and his songs. When he set his heart on Vigdis he refused all counsel of patience, tact, forbearance...
Meanwhile masons had been busy with the first College building, a vast Greek temple of gleaming white marble for which the Founder had left precise specifications. In 1848 Girard opened its first class of 100 fatherless boys. Within the building, which a hostile press called "The Icy Ghost of Two Million Dollars," a hardboiled staff shaved the orphans' heads, scrubbed their necks, put them through a cheerless routine of study and frequent canings...
...Pincus' newest trick was a modification of the late (1859-1924) Jacques Loeb's method of producing fatherless sea urchins by soaking sea urchin eggs in very salty water, of producing fatherless frogs by pricking frog eggs with a needle. Dr. Pincus soaked some rabbit ova in brine. Other rabbit ova he heated to 113° F., about 10° above normal. When he placed salted or heated ova in the fallopian tubes of rabbits, the rabbits became pregnant. Too impatient to wait 33 days for normal parturition, he killed the does, slit them open, found well-developed...
Wrote Gobind Behari Lal of the Hearst publications: "Since such parthogenic eggs can have no male chromosomes, all such fatherless children will ipso facto be girls...