Word: wedlock
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...abortion are also studied by social workers, and an attempt is made to help them whether they get an abortion or not . . . Unlike most Roman Catholic countries, Sweden has little prostitution. The illegitimacy rate is far lower than in most Roman Catholic countries, and many children born out of wedlock are legitimized by subsequent marriage. Quoting a Roman Catholic priest on Sweden would be a good deal like quoting a Communist on American democracy ! . . . The most shocking aspect of your attack is the slandering of Elise Ottesen-Jensen. She has fought the abortion evil for decades, one of her weapons...
...asks her up to his "an teem" apartment. Jack enters a painting class, sprouts a moustache and buys a lima bean-shaped sports-car. So it goes, and very merrily indeed, until separate existence is just too much to wrestle with, and Judy and Jack get a firm new wedlock on each other...
Anniversary Waltz (by Jerome Chodorov & Joseph Fields) tells of a couple (Kitty Carlisle & Macdonald Carey) who are celebrating their 15th wedding anniversary. The husband gets high enough to inform his in-laws that it is really a 16th anniversary-there was a year of unholy wedlock at the outset. No sooner are the wife's parents quieted down than the couple's teen-age kids start acting...
...Some 500,000 German couples live together out of wedlock. The Germans call these liaisons "uncle marriages" because the older children are usually told that "uncle" has come to stay with mother. Biggest single reason for the uncle marriages: the woman (usually a war widow) can go on collecting her state pension so long as she is legally single; if she remarries, her pension is forfeited. ¶ West Germany celebrates a high percentage of shotgun weddings. "Above all," said one man in delicately explaining Wiirmeling's job, "he wants to root out conditions that made the seventh month...
Ever since the war, thousands of Austrian couples have been living together without benefit of holy wedlock. Pensions, not passions, are to blame. Widows of public servants and war widows get a pension ranging from $24 for the wife of a streetcar driver to $80 for the wife of a field marshal-but the money stops if the woman marries again. The result has been a flood of what the Church calls "pension concubines." Laymen prefer such gentle euphemisms as "life companions." But however tolerant the neighbors, many Catholic concubines are unhappy about being cut off from the sacraments...