Word: wedlock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When she was 19, he stormed into her house with a cocked revolver and a disdain for small talk: "I want you to be the mother of my children. I have six shots ready, one for you and five for me, unless you come." She came, lived out of wedlock with him (they were married some six years later) while he edited a Socialist paper, hawked tips as a waiter ("He was a first-class waiter, fast and always impeccable"). Sighed Rachele: "Those were the best years. He had never learned to shave himself, and I used to shave...
Circuit Judge John Prunty of Miami last week announced his decision: six-year-old Hildy Ellis could remain with Mr. and Mrs. Melvin B. Ellis of Brookline, Mass., the Jewish couple who took her ten days after she was born out of wedlock to her Roman Catholic mother, Marjorie McCoy. Judge Prunty ruled that the Ellises were fit parents, approved their application to complete adoption procedures under Florida law. The decision ended six years of litigation and controversy: Hildy's mother had persuaded a Massachusetts court to order the Ellises to give Hildy up so that her mother could...
...child known as Viviane Piesset taken from her own pleasant home and delivered to the home of the Derocks. Why? After pondering the results of blood tests and other evidence, the court had decided "with the greatest certainty" that Viviane was in reality Louise, a child born out of wedlock to Mme. Derock within one hour of the birth of a legitimate son to Mme. Piesset in the same hospital...
...living on locusts and wild honey, and proclaiming, like the Essenes, Isaiah's words about making "straight in the desert a highway for our God." It has been suggested that John had been adopted as a child and raised by the Essenes, as was their custom. "They neglect wedlock," writes Josephus, "but choose out other persons' children, while they are pliable . . . and form them according to their own manners...
This was a fact brought home to her with the force of a thunderbolt one day early last week when she picked up a copy of the London Times, which up to then had maintained a stern silence on her romance. Wedlock with a divorced man, warned the Times, would require the Princess to enter into "a union which vast numbers of her sister's people, all sincerely anxious for her lifelong happiness, cannot in all conscience regard as a marriage." The peoples of her sister's Commonwealth, it went on, "would see her step down from...