Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Georgia, a famed son of a famed father beat a famed son of a famed father for the Senate seat of the late William Julius Harris. Nominated (and hence as good as elected) was Democrat Richard Brevard ("Dick") Russell Jr., 34. bachelor Governor whose father is Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court. Defeated was Charles Robert Crisp, 61, long-time Representative whose late father was Speaker of the House 40 years ago. Representative Crisp, whose heroic efforts to balance the Federal Budget with the 1932 Revenue Act won him wide acclaim, was turned down partly on the charge that...
...When Barbara La Marr was dying, she summoned Paul Bern to her sickroom. Mabel Normand did the same thing. He became known, jocosely, as "the little confessor of Hollywood." Platonic friendships are even more suspect in Hollywood than elsewhere. Nevertheless Paul Bern's reputation as a kindly, disinterested bachelor was such that even chit-chat writers, who had been attentive to Jean Harlow, saw no possibilities in her three-year acquaintance with Bern...
Last week there was news for all Harvard men who had looked forward this autumn to climbing the creaking stairs to "Copey's" two small bachelor chambers. Vacationing in New Hampshire, he announced that he was moving out of Hollis 15, where he had lived for 20 years. The Harvard Corporation had promised him the rooms as long as he should want them. But "Copey" is 72 now, the Yard is noisy, the stairs harder to climb than they used to be. For the past two years his doctor has been urging him to move to an apartment where...
...took up a post in the Defense Ministry. In 1926 he became Oberst (Colonel), in 1929 Generalmajor, holding down a job that friends thought should satisfy him for the rest of his life-chief of the Ministry's Organization Department. Apparently he was devoid of ambition, a confirmed bachelor with a ready smile and a fund of smoking car stories. He delighted in large pale cigars and French red wine. He went stag hunting every autumn and celebrated every kill with a carefully chosen dinner. Last year three things happened to change his entire life. To the amazement...
...easily frightened, had to be lured with a mingled sway of coyness and charm. Had Monica only minced down the narrow, correct way she had been taught, the prize might have been hers. But alas for corsets, in her very first season she blacklisted herself by letting an ineligible bachelor kiss her in a conservatory till all hours. Tongues wagged her market-value down & down. The bloom off, nobody came near but drones. Monica peered, preened and pined to no avail. Her father disappointedly died, her old-maid friends grew more virginal every year, her mother kept a stiff...