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Word: bachelor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wish to rent the little farmhouse at St. Vincent sur Jard. M. de Tremont told the old Tiger that he was only too glad to offer the place to him. The story of the old countess seemed the more amusing to me in that M. de Tremont is a bachelor. As he is very wealthy, I doubt very much that he would think of making money out of the last home of Clémenceau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Triumvirate. Banker of the triumvirate is Harold Leonard Stuart, bachelor president of famed Halsey, Stuart & Co. In 1927 his firm issued a booklet, The Motion Picture Industry as a Basis for Bond Financing, at the same time underwriting their first Fox issue. Trustee Stuart will represent his firm as Fox bankers and his firm's customers as large investors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fox Abdication | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...point out that Brig.-General Francis La Jeune Parer, chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, was a bachelor (soltero) he called him a solitaria (tape-worm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Mother, Tapeworm | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...Radio Control (1928) and Reapportionment (1929). He voted against Farm Relief (1927, 1928, 1929) and the Jones (increased Prohibition penalties) Law (1929). He votes Wet, drinks Wet. Legislative Hobbies: War veteran aid, protective labor measures, U. S. merchant marine, a high tariff for Massachusetts industries (shoes, textiles, manufactures). A bachelor, he is tall and stout. A double chin tends to get out over his tight-fitting collar. His stomach bulges over his belt. He weighs 200 Ibs. or more. Setting-up exercises every other day at a Washington health centre have failed to reduce his girth. He is troubled about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 25, 1929 | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Tall, good-looking, social, Bishop-elect Robbins has no worries about an old-age pension or about living on the salary of a Bishop-Coadjutor ($7,500). About the time he resigned his deanship last spring he was left by a bachelor uncle a legacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Robbins to Ohio | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

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