Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. Edmund Lester Pearson, graduated from Harvard in 1902 with what he terms "the fearsome degree of Bachelor of Library Science," has since been working in various libraries. In the copyright office of the Library of Congress he held what he designates as "the only library position that ever gave him any real exercise"−an exalted post in charge of all the circus posters deposited for copyright, which had to be spread out on the floor and measured with a yardstick. "To that," says he, "I owe my taste...
Wandering into the main dining room of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel of an evening you may find him. There he is−tall, sober, the perfect bachelor, who has attained years of discretion. Like a gracious prince−for he is a man of distinction−he frequents this semi-public haunt, where ever and again appear the potentates with whom he may speak on terms of equality...
This, he thinks, is that which should accompany old age. Theodore, the headwaiter, bows. The distinguished bachelor strolls in. Perhaps, this evening, he will join two or three men friends for dinner. He orders well, discriminatingly. He enjoys his meal in leisure. Toward its close he rises to pay calls on half a dozen distinguished friends at neighboring tables. Here he speaks with a gentleman and his wife. They are perhaps Mr. and Mrs. James M. Thomson, son-in-law and daughter of the late Champ Clark. At another table, he pauses to chat with a handsome...
...Gaston is a bachelor, a fact which caused his sister to remark: "Gaston will be the last of the Doumergues. He never would marry. He always said that our mother and I were enough and that my children were as his; but they don't bear the name of Doumergue, and for such a long, long time there have been Doumergues in this house...
Leap year and Ed. Guelph still a bachelor...