Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...editorial a few months before, taking Roman Catholics to task for the same sort of laxity. Now they had to eat their words: two Episcopal clergymen had just married divorcees -in church, with the permission of their bishops. The brides & grooms: thrice-married Elizabeth Donner Roosevelt Winsor, first wife of Elliott Roosevelt, and the Rev. Benedict H. Hanson of Baltimore; Isabelle W. Morrill and the Very Rev. Kirk B. O'Ferrall, ex-dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, Detroit...
...first time Floyd Starr heard the word adoption, he was a little boy and its meaning had to be explained to him. The idea appealed to him. As he grew older, he decided that some day he would adopt some children (though he had a wife and two kids of his own). In 1913, with $60,000 he had inherited, he bought 40 acres of rocky land just outside Albion, Mich, and opened the Starr Commonwealth school. The entrance requirements were the reverse of most prep schools': he wanted no boys of good reputation...
...Generation. In Chelsea, Mass., Miller Mitchell, 14, was just old enough, according to hospital regulations, to go in unescorted when he wanted to visit his 15-year-old wife and baby daughter...
...description of its plot: "The story of a man who spends all his life in penitentiaries while society tries to determine his guilt, which appears to be that he was born out of wedlock. When his innocence is established, he is 80 years old and eager to find a wife and raise a family. On the first day of his freedom he dies in the arms of a girl of eleven who is placed in a house of correction where she dies in childbirth. Her infant son is placed in a foundling home where he is killed by a boiler...
...uses as a measuring-rod a man he knows only by a card in a file, Adam Lorenz, an anti-Nazi journalist who had stood up to Hitler before & after 1933. From Lorenz' father, wife and friends, Cooper learns that Lorenz too had to fight the unheroic in himself. He had become a hero, a concentration-camp veteran, because he had been afraid not to be one. Cooper's search for Lorenz, against orders from his superiors, becomes the major action of the book. "If I've come this far . . . it's because...