Word: wifeless
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...After 20 years of roaming, some of it in the U.S., his nameless narrator-hero comes back to the Piedmontese village of his boyhood. Born a bastard, he gets no prodigal's welcome, but the villagers who remember him are deferential before his hard-won rise to respectability. Wifeless and childless, he has few bonds with the future, is bent only on uncovering his links with the past...
...delegates who disapproved hungry harems disapproved wifeless men no less. The congress favored a tax on bachelors. The delegates also demanded the right to vote and hold public office...
...Nobody, in one of Cummings' descriptions of him, is "Wifeless and only half awake, cursed with pimples, correctly dressed, cleanshaven above the nombril . . . in brief: an American." So Nobody naturally spends a good deal of his time laughing. The nice thing about Nobody's laughter, and the first thing most readers will like about Cummings' poetry, is that it carries no offense, even when directed at close relations: my uncle Daniel fought in the civil war band and can play the triangle like the devil...
Warm State Department friends as the New Deal began were bald Mr. Bullitt and John C. Wiley, able career man renowned for his grave wit. Both wifeless, they were the liveliest members of the U. S. delegation to the London Economic Conference whiled away many a happy shipboard hour dancing with the delegation's young stenographers. When President Roosevelt made Friend Bullitt first U. S. Ambassador to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Friend Wiley went along as Counselor of Embassy. Then came a rift in the diplomatic comradeship. Counselor Wiley married a Polish sculptress named Irene Baruch. Relations...
...gave her a $1,000,000-a-year income and custody of their three children. Two weeks later Marshall Field married Mrs. Audrey James Coats, socialite god- daughter of King Edward VII, widow of a British Army captain. Last October she, too, flew to Reno. That same week the wifeless multimillionaire gallantly shouldered the responsibility for topnotch U. S. music by accepting the presidency of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, personally contributed large sums to its deflated exchequer. Marshall Field was active in the management of his grandfather's store only when he sat down to board meetings...