Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...publish the grades of all students as an incentive to higher scholarship. This was found to be impractical and the College devised the present system of dividing all promoted students into six groups according to the average of the grades attained Men who completed their requirements for a Bachelor's degree and men who missed their final examinations are not included in the percentages...
...plays in this adventure a young wife who suspects her lawyer husband of certain indiscretions with an actress client. It seems that the night before the income tax returns were due he sat up with this client fathoming her finances until all hours. Two well meaning bachelor friends of his set about to prove to his wife that it is possible for a man and woman to spend a night together in a house without alarming developments. To this end they feed her much champagne and she falls asleep in the bachelors' library...
...Author. A dainty young lady was doing deck sports in the Mediterranean when the steward reached her with a radiogram: "Perennial Bachelor wins second Harper $2,000 novel contest,-" or words to match. Swiftly she informed her husband, Charles A. Corliss, of Englewood, N. J. Joyfully she recalled a visit to her former home, Claremont, Del., when her mother had coined the title. After four years ransacking attics, museums, once-popular song folios, old journals and letters, Peterson's Floral Adornments for the Home of Taste, Friendship Albums, memories of elders and bygone fashion-plates (perhaps too many...
...Colonial Secretary and Mrs. Amery, the Duke and Duchess of Portland, Sir Edward and Lady Grigg, Admiral of the Fleet Lord Beatty with Lady Beatty, Sir James Barrie, the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, Lady Patricia Ramsay (former Princess "Pat," daughter of the Duke of Connaught) and, popular bachelor that he is, the 77-year-old Lord Balfour...
What Price Morning-Glories, a purified play where Sergeant Squirt in lavender pajamas gets gloriously drunk with Captain Sagg, on chocolate malted milks and chocolate nut sundaes, until the Captain turns on the sergeant with: "You lilac!" and the infuriated sergeant screams: "You son of a bachelor's button...