Word: wedlock
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...petition was granted. Twice a week, specialists now lecture on the social, economic, medical and psychological aspects of wedlock. Upwards of 100 students take notes, discuss. Who the "specialists" are, what their experience, authority and tenets, were not announced. The University of North Carolina, unlike many institutions with vociferous press bureaus, sought no publicity for its experiment...
...Dyle lived on Jezebel's earnings, augmenting them occasionally by borrowing a neighbor's hen, until one day she mistakenly guessed he was untrue and reported him to the police for thieving. While he was in jail she entered into holy wedlock with a rumshop keeper from Jamaica and sailed away with her husband. Released at last Dyle joined the Zouaves and shortly he too was transferred to Jamaica. There he cut a sumptuous figure. He was the best man in Port Royal and in much demand at weddings. He was a most successful gambler...
...North Dakota, South Dakota-of the Uniform Illegitimacy Act represents an important advance in the movement to secure uniformity in U. S. law. This Act, however, does not go farther than to provide the machinery by which both parents (or one of them) of a child born out of wedlock, are (or is) compelled to support that child. The current Columbia Law Review points out that, in the main, the rights of the child, the duties of the parents and the relations of both to the community are determined in a rather widely varying fashion by the legislative enactments...
Incidentally, Helen is to be congratulated on having retained her maiden name in this new state of wedlock; "A Face 'mid the Flames" would not have been unexpected, or some such bit of "skimble-skamble stuff." Especially after what happened to the defenseless "Admirable Crichton...
...Nobody's Daughter," as the name implies, is the story of a young girl, born out of wedlock, who is taken from her poor home and introduced to the pleasures of the society world by her father and mother, both of whom are married separately and respectably. Interesting and tense situations develop as the parents attempt to conceal their past relations from their true husband and wife. The girl's marriage to a mechanic is opposed but finally consent is gained from her guardian who is her father on condition that after six months among gentlefolk, her mind be unchanged...