Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Norman C. Norman, 39, a bachelor in the jewelry manufacturing business with his father in Manhattan, demanded $16.60 from Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. He held a coupon of one of the railroad's bonds calling for an interest payment of $22.50 in gold. Since the railroad could not pay in gold he wanted $39.10 in devalued currency. Lower courts had upheld the railroad's refusal to pay Norman C. Norman the additional...
Biography of a Bachelor Girl (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Ann Harding does not suffer in this one. Instead, still copiously exuding sweetness, she is cast as an adventuress so notorious that reporters storm her cabin when she returns to the U. S., so impoverished that bailiffs immediately thereafter denude her studio of furniture, so dashing that Robert Montgomery, editor of a magazine called Every Week, is ready to pay $20,000 for her biography. Ghostwriting her memoirs, he endangers the career of Edward Everett Horton, candidate for the Senate. Horton will lose the election if Every Week reveals the part...
...film, a production of Jacques de Baroncelli after Erekmann-Chatrian, stars Lucien Dubosc of the Comedie Francaise in the title role of Fritz Cobus, the prize bachelor of the little village of Hunenbourg, who falls prey to the charms of his farmer's daughter, Suzel, played by Simone Bourday...
PASSING JUDGMENTS-George Jean Nathan-Knopf ($2.50). Another volume of critical essays by a famed bachelor, onetime second fiddle to H. L. Mencken...
Baldish. a bachelor, with a high, nervous voice. Author Wilder writes like an educated angel, talks like an educated Poll, still feels that he has much to learn...