Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cincinnati last week the oldest Episcopal Bishop in the U. S. consecrated the youngest Episcopal Bishop in the U. S. They were Boyd Vincent, 84, Bishop of Southern Ohio, native of Erie, Pa., Yale 1867, bachelor, onetime rector in Erie, Pittsburgh, resident of Cincinnati since 1889; and Henry Wise Hobson, 38, Bishop Coadjutor of Southern Ohio, native of Denver, Yale 1914, husband, onetime rector in Worcester, Mass., major in the 89th Division of the Infantry during...
...citizen (married or single), who makes $1,000,000 a year is allowed to keep more than two-thirds of it. In both countries deductions for wife and children amount to only the merest trifle on an income of $50,000 or more. The million-a-year bachelor, in either country, is as well off from the tax standpoint as the million-a-year father with a big family of children...
Birthday. Charles Townsend Copeland, A. B. (his only earned degree), Harvard professor of English, bachelor, given to mustard suits, to scolding, to reading-aloud (Kipling, Dickens) to two generations of devoted undergraduates. Age: 70. Date: April 27. Said the New York Herald Tribune: "The men . . . knew that 'Copey' was one of the supreme teachers of their generation. . . . How the man could teach...
...Harvard, foolishly enough, penalized him for it. "Copey" was fifty before he was granted even an associate professorship; sixty-five before the grudging doctors made him a full professor. But the men who met him in his classroom in old Sever Hall, or climbed the stairs to his bachelor's sanctum in Hollis, and the hordes who poured into the Union whenever it was announced that "Copey" would read knew better than the faculty. They knew that "Copey" was one of the supreme teachers of their generation. Men may quarrel over the explanation, but they agree upon the fact...
...convent to attend a wedding in Manhattan. The complications, song cues and jokes are mainly occasioned by her unique naivete, in contrast with the worldly wisdom of a fat man and an actress whom she meets on the trip and re-encounters in her baffled adventures at a bachelor's apartment. The plot is furthered by a gunshot on a Pullman car, causing the fat comic to poke crude fun at a little girl who is traveling with her mother...