Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Method and Madness. True to the best tradition of collaborators, Rodgers & Hart are not at all alike. Trim, afluent-looking, father-of-a-family Richard Rodgers (who at 36 is getting grey) supplies the method in their work: tiny, swarthy, cigar-chewing Bachelor Lorenz Hart (who at 43 is getting bald), the madness. Dick Rodgers lives with his attractive wife in a duplex apartment in Manhattan's swanky East 77th Street, summers at smart Sands Point, Long Island, gives formal dinner parties, draws a bid to the famed Charles Shipman Paysons' (the former Joan Whitney) Fourth of July...
...Jackson, Jefferson Davis), contributed to regional anthologies,, made himself their best-known spokesman. The Fathers, his first novel, exhibits Border-State mentality at its most devious. The story, laid in Virginia and Maryland during the first days of the Civil War, is recalled 50 years later by an old bachelor doctor named Lacy Buchan. The protagonist, however, is the narrator's brother-in-law, a handsome, money-making Marylander named George Posey, whom the narrator worshiped but only vaguely understood. The elder Buchans, Jeffersonian aristocrats, understand Posey even less. He flouts their social codes, which he dismisses...
Thus, the story of Henry Cope. 1803 hero of The Moon Is Feminine, a rich, dilettante bachelor with "quick" green eyes, narrow forehead, "Wertherish smile," is too brightly in the manner of Virginia Woolf to be missed by the dimmest-sighted reader. But Clemence Dane has her own transformer for cutting down Virginia Woolf's voltage to serve more popular tastes: the mood of her legend comes nearer to those melancholy romances which flourished in the 90s-dark young women floating beautifully dead in lily ponds...
...that Crown Princess Juliana is expecting a second child. Netherlanders, disappointed that the first was a girl, busied themselves at once last week with prayers that next February they will have a male heir. The Crown Princess, whose gadabout Prince Consort Bernhard last spring took a three weeks' bachelor vacation, leaving her at The Hague, told friends last week: "Benno and I will soon go for a cruise in the Baltic on the yacht we were given as a wedding present...
Married. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 25, "most eligible bachelor in the U. S.." owner of Sagamore Farm and famed handicap horse Discovery, co-heir with his brother George to the $20,000,000 fortune of the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt; to Manuela ("Molly") 'Hudson, 26. California cousin-by-marriage of Charles S. Howard, owner of Seabiscuit; in Sands Point, L. I. Reported the New York World-Telegram: "Some cried, but Mrs. Margaret Emerson, Mr. Vanderbilt's mother, who has been married four times, was cheerful...