Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marxism and become good Nazis. "Provided the parents' political attitude is not objectionable," he announced, "I am ready to take over the obligation of godfatherhood." Generous, this offer gave Braun Babies an inside track in the rush of hausfrauen who continue eager to get their offspring godfathered by Bachelor Hitler, Bachelor Roehm, Chief of Staff of the Storm Troops or other Nazi leaders who, in the main, show a taste for celibacy at surprising variance with their preachments to other Germans for more & better babies. To check the rush of hausfrauen, General Goring announced that-except in the case...
...middle of a keynote speech on Service in which he praised prolific Benito Mussolini (three boys, two girls), Minister Frick suddenly remembered that Adolf Hitler is a bachelor. "Our leader." he hastily explained "devotes himself to our people at a sacrifice of his own person. He needs men to carry out the ideas and aims of Service which he has recognized as right...
Baldassare Castiglione's only ambition and natural vocation was "being welcome in the world." A born courtier, he had few worries in his early life except his mother, who kept trying to get him married when he was having too good a time as a bachelor. He practiced worldliness "with an almost religious decorum," and discovering the perennial truth that the gentleman is an almost extinct species, wrote a manual of best behavior (The Courtier) which still makes later books of etiquette seem crude...
...which never quite squared with the notion of women that he got while playing the piano as a boy in the red-light district of Hamburg. Brahms patronized brothels all his life, a fact never before printed. He loved several women but he was shy of them, loved his bachelor freedom more. In Vienna where he lived his last 30 years he went around in a threadbare alpaca coat, trousers which he cut off above the ankle. He seldom wore a collar, spread his long beard over his shirtfront so that no one would know the difference. Cuffs were...
Democrat. Mr. Eastman always admitted that he had no political affiliation, and almost everybody else admitted that the I. C. C. would be a far less potent body without Mr. Eastman. A hard-working bachelor and a patient, keen-nosed bear for grubbing out facts, he has long been known as the I. C. C.'s most brilliant dissenter. Though he is a frank advocate of Government control of the carriers, all railroadmen have a vast respect for Mr. Eastman's knowledge of their business. When President Hoover had misgivings about his reappointment, it was the railroadmen...