Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lack of a decent script, Hollywood has again fallen back on the opium of "poor girl wants rich boy," the only difference between this movie and its ancestors being in the quantity of "poor girl and the numbers of swooning suckers. Instead of the usual single love interest, "Bachelor's Daughters" travels on a quadruple con game that grinds to a sleepy halt after the first ten minutes. Not even the superb artistry of Adolph Menjou, cast as a floor walker bulldozed into playing father to the feminine fortune hunters, can dispel the disappointed and belligerent hush that soon blankets...
...donors prefer that the selected Fellows, who will each receive a 500 pound grant, be "recent college graduates of distinction or students who will receive their bachelor's degree with distinction before June 1, 1947." Applicants must be unmarried and "prepared to devote their whole time to the objects of the Fellowship...
After a conference at University Hall yesterday, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted approval of the new Holloway Plan, a four-year training program leading to graduation with Bachelor's degrees and an Ensign commission in the Naval Reserve...
...Today he plays about 70 recitals a season, and is glad to see his audiences spreading beyond the earnest, humorless cultists he once played to. Says he: "Audiences used to be largely record collectors and cranks who also liked folk dancing because it was pure and sexless." Kirkpatrick, a bachelor, lives in a tiny Manhattan apartment crowded with two harpsichords, an 18th Century piano, a clavichord and a thousand books. To keep his instruments in tune he seldom turns on the radiator ("My friends stay away in the winter to keep from catching cold"). He plays Bach and Mozart with...
Since 1907, students at Harvard College could get a Bachelor of Science degree if they hadn't studied enough ancient languages to get a Bachelor of Arts. Last week Harvard discontinued the S.B. (as of 1950). One reason: it "denoted not a knowledge of science but merely an ignorance of Latin...