Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Third group which followed Bronson Cutting to his grave were the liberals of Congress. When he joined them seven years ago, an unassuming young bachelor from New Mexico, he did not seem a promising member of a group which is traditionally composed of the prima donnas of politics. He was neither fire-eater nor spellbinder, but to the liberals he became something more useful. In his quiet way he cemented the bonds between them, often persuaded them to hang together instead of flying off in a dozen individual directions. When the news of Bronson Cutting's death was brought...
Happy last week was Louisville's most famed bookmaker, taciturn Sam ("Dink") Dinklespiel, most of whose clients had bet on Edward Riley Bradley's Boxthorn. An amiable, round-paunched, ruddy-faced bachelor, Bookmaker Dinklespiel is the most phlegmatic member of his profession in the U. S. He says he cannot remember the biggest bets he has accepted because "those things make little impression...
Major John Gander, richest and most respected citizen of Lammiter. was a crotchety old bachelor but he had his share of relatives. And at his death they all looked forward rather than back. The will was a great shock to all of them: it left the bulk of his estate to the one who should have become the parent of the most legitimate children in a limited time. As only two of the heirs-apparent were married, and only one of them had a child, the race promised to be interesting. Katherine, the childless wife, went rushing off to meet...
...students entering Harvard College after the present academic year, the distribution requirements for the bachelor's degree shall consist of at least four courses chosen from any of the subjects not related to the field of concentration...
...teaching experience at Virginia State College, "Pat" Patterson settled down at Tuskegee in 1930 as veterinarian and bacteriologist. When Dr. Atkins was murdered, he stepped up to the directorship of the Agricultural Department, biggest branch of the Institute. At 34, Frederick Douglass Patterson is still a serious young bachelor, with broad shoulders, greying hair and small mustache, who rises at 6 a. m., jogs twice around the Institute's quarter-mile track before breakfast. Students frequently find him lost in newspaper comics, which he thinks of great psychological value...