Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...States a man and a woman, if they lived decently and publicly together long enough as husband & wife, were accepted as such in the eyes of the law. despite the fact that their union was unhallowed by the church, unsanctioned by statute. In the other 24 States an eligible bachelor's mistress never could attain the legal status of a wife by merely passing herself off as such...
...huge landscaped oval encompasses some 40 lesser structures: a helium repurification plant, a 2,000,000-cu. ft. helium tank (like a city gas tank), two other tanks each holding 2,000,000 cu. ft. under pressure; a locomotive shed, ice-making plant, quarters for married officers, "BOQ"' (bachelor officers' quarters), enlisted men's barracks, recreation building, all in Spanish architecture. Most remarkable is the dock which measures about three city blocks long, one block wide and 18 stories high. Like the Goodyear-Zeppelin dock its ends are closed by enormous orange-peel doors. Each "peel" weighs...
...crew of lowans who were shoving their way into his small court room at Le Mars (pop.: 4,788) one afternoon last week. Some were farmers in ragged overalls. Others looked like blackshirted hoodlums from nearby Sioux City. They kept their hats on, continued to smoke. Before the tall bachelor on the bench were cases involving a first test of the new state law to suspend farm mortgage foreclosures. One of the intruders arrogantly demanded to be heard. Judge Bradley silenced him. The crowd growled...
...beginning, anyone who has ever seen a Chevalier picture should have a fair idea of how the story will develop: how the Vicomte happily lets the baby break his watch; how he splashes water on his patient valet (Edward Everett Horton) to amuse the infant; how he turns his bachelor apartment into a day nursery and dismisses, one by one, his lady friends; how he hires a nurse (Helen Twelvetrees) and falls in love with her after quarreling with his fiancee...
...Belfry was a Cambridge Don who had been creditably through the War but had never seen much life. A pathologically shy bachelor, he finally decided to take a holiday in Italy and do a thing or two while there was yet time. He liked being in Capri out of season and got along beautifully till he fell in love with buxom young Caterina. Then his troubles started. When he finally persuaded her to run off with him by night, the romantic row to the mainland nearly killed him. Then he found himself in the midst of a crazy colony...