Word: wedlock
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...above endorsing a bit of pragmatic promiscuity when the times dictated. In 1944, with the population decimated by war, Stalin wanted to boost the birth rate and decreed that men would no longer be obliged either to admit paternity or provide any financial support for children born out of wedlock...
...secret was so intimate that she confided it to none but the London Daily Mail, the London Daily Sketch and their 3,000,000 readers. After four years of wedlock, Swedish Starlet Britt Eklund, 25, was parting with Comedian Peter Sellers, 42. The frantic pace of traveling with Peter was what did it, she said. "It might sound fabulous, but you can't imagine how exhausting it is transporting a baby, a nanny and all your possessions all over the world. I always travel with my tape recorder, radio, camera, ten framed pictures of my family, my very...
...sexual awakening of an adolescent movie star has long been a profitable screen attraction. Hayley Mills, who got her first screen kiss at the age of 18 in The Truth About Spring, lost her virginity to holy wedlock last year in The Family Way. In A Matter of Innocence, the baby fat is really in the fire: she takes a lover, without even being in love with...
...Concentrating on her city's long-revered upper crust, she shows much more enthusiasm for quips about their flirtations and affairs than for their marriages and charity balls. In one column she idly wondered how to send an invitation to a couple who are living together out of wedlock. "Should you accept the situation and send one invitation, or ignore it and send two?" The answer she left to the individual hostess' ingenuity...
Sonoma County district attorney charged Sorensen with violating a state law that makes willful nonsupport of a legitimate child a misdemeanor. To convict Sorensen, Municipal Court Judge James E. Jones Jr. relied partly on the public policy that "all children born in wedlock are presumed the legitimate issue of the marital partners...