Crossword-Solution: KALLIKAK 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 20

But, anyway,--and this is true,--six generations ago a young gentleman, called for convenience Martin Kallikak, got drunk one night and temporarily eloped with a feeble-minded barmaid, thus founding a long line of feeble-minded Kallikaks,--drunkards, gamblers, prostitutes, horse thieves,--a scourge to New Jersey and surrounding States.

Won't you please expunge that unfortunate fifteen minutes at the porte-cochere last June, and remember instead the fifteen hours I spent reading the Kallikak Family? I would like to feel that we're friends again.

Studies of the "Jukes" family and the "Kallikak" family, and others, show convincingly the spread of these defects where defectives marry.

Those were twin planets, one apparently settled by the equivalent descendants of the Edwards and the other inhabited by the children of a Jukes-Kallikak union.

Among the best known of such families are the "Kallikaks," the "Jukes," the "Hill Folk," the "Nams," the "Zeros," and the "Ishmaelites." _The Kallikak family._ Martin Kallikak was a youthful soldier in the Revolutionary War.