Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grave an hour the young bachelor who may some day choose to call himself "King David"* might properly have pondered what his future is to be. Not much longer will the Empire rest content that he is without wife or heir. One may, with propriety, assume that last week the thoughts of David of Windsor turned repeatedly upon Lady Anne Maud Wellesley, 18, dark eyed and blooming daughter of the Marquis Douro, direct descendant of the great Duke of Wellington...
George Holden Tinkham. He, a miraculous Republican, survived the Democratic landslide in Boston last month. He received only 333 votes less than Nominee Smith in his district and won his seat for the eighth consecutive time-a Boston record. Widely read and traveled, wealthy, a bachelor, he is in many ways an "ideal" Congressman. His large staff of secretaries is continually occupied doing things for his constituents. His correspondence is vast, perhaps 50,000 letters per annum. He was in Speaker Longworth's class at Harvard. He still takes pride in having been "the first American to fire...
...Joseph M. Muldoon, Manhattan Smithite, affluent bachelor, departed from the U. S. "forever," selfexiled. Said he: "The 1928 campaign will brand Americans as bigots for the next century...
Notable in last week's announcement was the name of Alexander Smith Cochran, lifelong Republican, carpetmaker of Yonkers, N. Y., third husband of Mme. Ganna Walska (at present Mrs. Harold F. McCormick), once famed as "the world's richest bachelor," founder of Yale's literary Elizabethan Club. He gave...
...laying bare the artist's mechanical simulation of emotion, the author has given a penetrating study of an inadequate subject. Gifted ironist, Anne Parrish (of The Perennial Bachelor) has allowed her irony to become too clever to be convincing...