Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was about all that newsmen could pin down last week when John Deferrari, now a bony, brisk bachelor of 84, gave an amazed Boston Public Library more than $1,000,000 to set up a trust fund. For the presentation, he showed up in an uncomfortably new grey suit, the side pockets of which were fastened with safety pins as a protection against pickpockets. The library's board gratefully accepted his gift and agreed to his stipulation that income from the fund be used to build a John Deferrari wing containing his portrait...
Adam Gimbel, a chronic bachelor whom she had met socially some years previously, hired her after a look at some of her theatrical designs-as a "stylist" at Saks. (Stylists were experts in good taste who counseled buyers on what was "chic.") One of her jobs was to go to Paris and buy French models to bring back for Saks to copy. In 1929, he asked her to take over the then slipping Salon Moderne...
...Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer. Shirley Temple loves Gary Grant who loves Myrna Loy who thinks she loves Rudy Vallee (TIME...
...Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer. Shirley Temple loves Gary Grant who loves Myrna Loy who thinks she loves Rudy Vallee, with fun & games for all (TIME, Aug.11...
...Heaven? Bachelor Lewis is no man to be afraid of that one either: "The letter and spirit of Scripture, and of all Christianity, forbid us to suppose that life in the New Creation will be a sexual life; and this reduces our imagination to the withering alternative either of bodies which are hardly recognizable as human bodies at all or else of a perpetual fast. As regards the fast, I think our present outlook might be like that of a small boy who, on being told that the sexual act was the highest bodily pleasure, should immediately ask whether...