Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ballinger is a perfect example of the ex-teacher turned left-wing New Dealer. He wears a Phi Beta Kappa key, drinks bourbon whiskey, smokes a big curved pipe, is so proud of his speaking ability that he has framed programs of his debates on the walls of his bachelor apartment. FTC took him on two years ago when his ideas proved too acid...
...president of the New York Board of Education, Harris took suddenly to drink. Two years later, disgraced, he sailed for the Far East, became one of the most popular traders on the China Coast. He got the consular job because few wanted it, and because he was a bachelor-the Japanese wanted no foreign women in Japan...
...Kennedy urged that high-school curricula be broadened so that superior students could learn enough chemistry, physics and biology to enable them to pass rigid medical qualifying examinations without going to college. He would spend the time saved from college on added medical work, suggested a degree of bachelor of medicine after four years in medical school, M.D.s after an additional five years of study and internship...
...lifelong bachelor, Gibbs was a quiet, modest man. At Yale, where he did his major work, most of the students not only did not know he was a great man ; they did not even know he existed. His colleagues admired him but found his recondite researches hard to understand. Like Albert Einstein, Josiah Willard Gibbs was not an experimenter but a thinker...
...luncheon given in his honor by the National Association of Merchant Tailors of America and the Merchant Tailor Designers of America, bigheaded Bachelor Lucius Beebe, most painstaking dude of Manhattan chit-chatterers, declared: "Almost every man has either secretly or patently some feeling for clothes and would indulge his fancy far more lavishly and colorfully were it not for the jealousy, usually expressed in the form of sarcasm, by the women he encounters. ... No woman can stand seeing a man as well or painstakingly dressed as herself...