Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That RealmleaderHitler, still a bachelor at 45, now intends to beget instead of appoint his successor is common report in Berlin.* Many a credulous Berliner has heard the story that Handsome Adolf said recently to a male intimate: "I shall marry a German woman of the noblest blood. But whom? So many are all around me with their hopes in their eyes...
...dynamite went off prematurely. But he lived. He was blown up again in 1910. But when he was hit in 1922, he was blown to the gates of Kingdom Come. While the local doctor was working over him, neighbors remarked dolefully that it was good he was a bachelor and would not leave a widow to grieve...
...Finney did not pass through the pearly gates. Last week he was still in Bremer County, still a bachelor. At 70, he is stooped from the explosion which crippled and palsied him. Nowadays he does odd jobs, chiefly picking beans for a local cannery. This year his total earnings were $31, but he still dresses as neatly as his income will allow and the county thinks highly of the beetle-browed, mustachioed...
Meanwhile Prince Caetani's brothers were betraying their heritage, selling off the lands of their father, the late Duke Onorato, which comprised by far the largest estate in Italy, a virtual principality within the realm. Only bachelor Prince Gelasio, with no child to whom he could leave his share of the Caetani lands, kept all he could and was among the first Italian proprietors to cooperate with Il Duce in Fascism's vast project of land reclamation. As an engineer, the Prince, trained in the U. S. for such work, was gripped and fascinated by the political concept...
Still deaf to his own exhortations about the joy and duty of begetting is Adolf Hitler. Last week, however, the bachelor Realmleader did the handsome thing by German spouses...