Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...children were released from Ellis Island when it was proved, Admiral McCully being a bachelor of large independent income, that they were unlikely to become public charges. Now their ages vary from 10 to 19 years. The oldest, Nikolai Smnov, is enrolled in the Staunton Military Academy at Staunton...
...murder, seven years ago. He had a wife named Rose, a son named Dante, a little daughter named Inez. He was inclined to be moody, introspective, with occasional outburst of fumbled yet eloquent English. He detested capitalistic society, as did his comrade in life and in jail, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, bachelor, onetime fish peddler and ditchdigger, whose mustache used to be neatly curled. Mr. Vanzetti, an outspoken emotionalist, was the acknowledged orator of the pair...
...Majesty managed to slip out of Sofia last week en route for Switzerland before rumors could be started that he went in search of a bride. Year after year correspondents have cried "Wolf! Wolf!" to the effect that he was going to marry this princess or that, whenever Bachelor Tsar Boris has set out for his annual vacation (TIME, July 26, 1926, et ante). This year the Tsar resolved to outwit rumor mongers...
GRAY SHEEP-Dillwyn Parrish- Harper ($2). Dillwyn Parrish, brother of Anne Parrish, the Perennial Bachelor lady, last year came forward as another sharp-eyed anatomist of life's nobodies. Repugnantly dear to him is the tragicomedy of middling people-middling honest, middling happy, middling alive. He called his first novel Smith Everlasting. The Rev. Fred Rain of Gray Sheep is another victim of everlasting Smithness in body, mind and spirit-a figure at once lovable, pitiful and contemptible from the equivocal nature of Smithness, for which another name is stagnation...
...Author. Short, slim, quiet, Dillwyn Parrish lives in Claymont, Del., the young bachelor master of an old homestead, exchanging visits often with the sister whose bookishness revived his interest in life after a bad time...