Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Expressing Willie. Willie, 40-year-old bachelor, has made so much money out of toothpaste that he has leisure to discover he has a soul which also needs polishing. At his Long Island home radiant male and female butterflies foment his yearnings, having ideals to exchange for free board and lodging. Willie's old- fashioned mother sets them all down as parasites and summons Willie's boyhood sweetheart from the Middle West in the hope of once more striking a responsive chord...
...Congress a man who, in respect of learning, is without equal in that chamber. Long since, in college days, he would challenge his fellows to read any two lines of Shakespeare which he could not locate-play, act, scene. Today the story persists that the kitchen-range in his bachelor apartment is piled high with books...
...upstairs" than among the society folk themselves. The servants gain much of their information through a little game they have invented. Torn letters are salvaged from waste baskets, and he who can patch them most cleverly wins the prize. Sprang, the butler, who is a devout Methodist and a bachelor, makes no secret of his disapproval of the goings on "upstairs." In this he has the unqualified support of Craig, the chauffeur. Meanwhile Louis Le Tour, the captain's man, enlivens the scene by making love to all the pretty servants of the opposite...
After Mr. H. L. Mencken and G.B.S. have explained carefully and occasionally in words of one syllable exactly how great is the triumph of the bachelor, the discovery of one who believes that single blessedness is due to the inability of the man to win a mate is a distinct shock. The suggestion of match making instruction at a male college in the light of modern knowledge is "refreshingly naive" even as such a suggestion for a female college would be incredibly ridiculous. The indomitable ninety-seven deserve to be Chronicled in song and story as "Harvard...
...most absorbing of stories?the incredible picture of 19th Century imperialism. The British colonized Africa under an impulse that seemed to spring equally from the mission societies, the British Museum, the trading companies, and to be carried on with a classic casualness. Johnston first met Cecil Rhodes at a bachelor dinnerparty in London. The two sat up all night discussing a new scheme for colonization in central Africa; when they parted the next morning Rhodes had given Johnston a check for £2000, and by afternoon, Johnston, while waiting for the Foreign Office to look into the matter, was already...