Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plugger unseen and a bachelor...
...been brought into the House of Commons. I am still more sorry that women have been admitted to juries. The plain fact is that men and women cannot be brought together in association without either attracting one another or irritating one another." Thus, last week, wrote that most respected bachelor, Lord Hugh Cecil, 57, Conservative M. P., Privy Councilor, LL.D., High Churchman, War-time Lieutenant of the Royal Flying Corps...
Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck, the only Indian that ever graduated from Harvard, slim and imperious, strolled, for four years through the buildings which then composed Harvard College, or what is more likely, for he died of consumption almost immediately after taking his degree of Bachelor of Arts, sneaked along the wall of his private dormitory much more fearing than to be feared. Harvard never seemed to agree with Indian students for most of the ones who started, and there were quite a number 250 years ago, either died before they could take their degrees or returned to their native hunting ground before...
...With such guidance every man will be assured of a sound, education, a suitable preparation for any professional school. If a man plans to be a leader among professional geologists, he is advised to postpone as far as possible his real specialization in his chosen field until after the bachelor's degree has been obtained
...resale value of the English peerage is going up. In Lloyd George's hey day it seems that the requisites for the peerage were the combination of a million pounds and a generous nature and either bachelor hood or a childless marriage. But Mr. Baldwin has effected a change. When he leaves office he may be the only Prime Minister for a century who has left the House of Lords reduced in size. Distinguished records in the colonies and large London bank balances are going unrecognized. Feeling runs strong for a higher peerage turnover...