Word: wedlock
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...Holy Wedlock...
Veteran Soapboxer Soper made his rebuttal on TV. "I agree that the ideal condition is that a child should be born in wedlock, but wedlock is itself an omnibus word which covers a multitude of relationships that have very little love in them. Many people don't know the love of a father now. I would rather . . . that a little child knew the fervent love of a mother. [Is it] a better thing to impose loneliness and frustration on women who haven't the decorative values to attract a male, and therefore can't get married...
...Archbishop added: "On the facts of this case, some legislation would seem to be inevitable. If the law gives him a remedy against adultery by his wife, it can hardly deny him a remedy against his wife if she bears into his family a child born out of wedlock and without his knowledge...
...When she was 19, he stormed into her house with a cocked revolver and a disdain for small talk: "I want you to be the mother of my children. I have six shots ready, one for you and five for me, unless you come." She came, lived out of wedlock with him (they were married some six years later) while he edited a Socialist paper, hawked tips as a waiter ("He was a first-class waiter, fast and always impeccable"). Sighed Rachele: "Those were the best years. He had never learned to shave himself, and I used to shave...
Circuit Judge John Prunty of Miami last week announced his decision: six-year-old Hildy Ellis could remain with Mr. and Mrs. Melvin B. Ellis of Brookline, Mass., the Jewish couple who took her ten days after she was born out of wedlock to her Roman Catholic mother, Marjorie McCoy. Judge Prunty ruled that the Ellises were fit parents, approved their application to complete adoption procedures under Florida law. The decision ended six years of litigation and controversy: Hildy's mother had persuaded a Massachusetts court to order the Ellises to give Hildy up so that her mother could...