Word: wedlock
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...Mothers: 32 Children. In Russia no practical distinction is made between children born in or out of wedlock and either sort have legal claim to paternal support. Theoretically the Russian law is a sharp curb to carnality, since no man wants his entire income to be claimed by promiscuous children. Last week, however, a test case was curiously decided in Moscow when 10 unmarried mothers claimed support for their 32 children from a rich peasant, Ivan Bourov. In Bourov's case, the Court laid down a broad, general principal: "One third of a citizen's income...
...dancing and delicate wit inhabit Author Wassermann's mediaeval romancing to a far greater extent than his sombre psychological studies of modern Germany (Gold, Faber, Wedlock). Translator Otto P. Shinnerer puts no strings across the bright lawn of prose on which Author Wassermann's imagination whirls in a dexterous Bergamask...
...impresses the layman, being made so dogmatically that he feels that it must have some basis of fact. The first point becomes absurd when once one realizes where its logic leads. One of the greatest minds of all time was Leonardo da Vinci, and Leonardo was born out of wedlock. It is moreover, no guarantee of greatness in a nation that its people spawn promiscuously in order to provide greater opportunity for high-grade germ cells' meeting...
...effervescent little animal, also a child of divorce, sees an opening and captures Ted. The scene shifts from Long Island to Paris to the Riviera. Jean and a Prince de Sfax, without illusion and without love for each other, enter into a business transaction solemnized by holy Catholic wedlock. Kitty arrives to tinker with the affections of the Prince, is divorced by Ted. At last, it seems that Ted and Jean will be able to rush off together into boundless happiness. But no-the moral ending requires that Jean and the Prince shall build anew. . . . It is entertaining fiction...
...reform-urgers might have crusaded against even more lenient laws. In five southern states, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi and Virginia, twelve-year-old girls may take the marriage vow with their parents' consent; in New Hampshire 13 years' experience of this world is considered sufficient for wedlock...