Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outside Congress: A rich bachelor, he lives in his ancestral home, a big brownstone house on fashionable 16th Street. He drives himself to & from the Capitol in a Ford, keeps a big limousine and chauffeur for social purposes. The Senate's most inveterate sportsman, he bowls and boxes daily at a gymnasium, plays golf in the 70's at Burning Tree Club, shoots ducks, goes to Alaska to hunt Kodiak bear, and bring their cubs back to the Washington zoo. Socially he moves in the best Washington circles but prefers admirals to most of his Senate colleagues...
...John Dover Place sued Dr. Charles Frederick Searle, charging the doctor had enticed his wife Gwendoline from his home. Evidence showed Grocer's Assistant Place spent four nights a week at the Rose & Crown public house. Wig askew, Sir Henry Alfred McCardie, England's handsome, black-eyed bachelor judge, said...
...Brett Young-Harper ($2.50). Though Author Young might be horrified at the comparison, Mr. and Mrs. Pennington may remind you of Authoress Vina Delmar's best-selling Bad Girl. Like Bad Girl, it is a circumstantial story of middle-class domesticity, its falls and rises. But Author Young, Bachelor of Medicine, has not been so obstetrical as Authoress Delmar, mother. His scene too is larger, peopled by more characters. Whereas Bad Girl was a tempest in a flat, Mr. and Mrs. Pennington is heading straight for tragedy when Author Young's magic wand stops it, just in time...
...Welch of Johns Hopkins, and five dozen other notables. Mr. Rockefeller, at ease among intimate friends, recalled what a young man (27) he was when Drs. Smith, Flexner, Welch and others organized the Rockefeller Institute. Dr. Welch saluted Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Rockefeller, and other ladies present, with an old bachelor's old quip, forebore retelling his more jovial stories...
...their subscribers, the idea has spread to retail stores. Every customer who shops in certain stores has his life automatically insured. In case of his death his heirs receive a sum in direct proportion to the money he spent in the store during the past year. Relatives of a bachelor receive up to $250, married customers get special benefits. Premiums on the insurance are paid by the storekeeper to the insurance company at the rate of about 2? per $5 of customers' purchases...