Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scottish Presbyterian minister's son who became Archbishop of York at 44, of Canterbury at 64, he was a handsome, worldlywise, rosy-cheeked bachelor. During his Primacy he advocated interdenominational unity, a soft answer on remarriage after divorce - but not in the Simpson affair, of which he said: ". . . strange and sad it is that he [Edward] should have sought his happiness in a manner inconsistent with Christian principles of marriage...
...chance to act. One day in 1926 she forsook her scrubbing brush. She donned trousers, overcoat, slouch felt hat, a false-diamond stickpin and a false black mustache, and sortied into Mexican society. That day and until her death five years later, she was Don Carlos Balmori, an eccentric bachelor grandee with vast fortunes and castles in Spain...
Gomes has been called both an ultra-nationalist and "the most pro-American man in Brazil." He neither smokes nor drinks, goes regularly to Mass, is a bachelor (but Rio rumor said last week he might marry a Spanish Socialist). In the campaign his democratic backers played on the handsome Gomes' appeal, advised Brazil's recently enfranchised women to "vote for the Brigadier, handsome and single...
...making the Academy Award picture, The Song of Bernadette, Goetz quit in a huff when Zanuck returned and began acting like a "little colonel" around the studio. Goetz approached dark, dapper Leo Spitz, 57, Hollywood's legal and financial know-it-all. A boy wonder (he earned his Bachelor of Philosophy and Doctor of Jurisprudence degrees before he was 21), Spitz masterminded the reorganization of both RKO and Paramount when they were on the rocks...
...Hypocritic Reader. In the Sussex farmhouse where he lived for some ten years as a secluded bachelor, Smith dedicated himself to discovering a literary form in which to distill his urbane reflections. One day, leafing through the pages of Charles Baudelaire's Poems in Prose, Moralist Smith found the form. It was these lapidary fragments which he called trivia, and in which he condensed the discernments, bafflements, exultations, wry exposures to society and to eternity, and shy self-revelations of the Smithian soul, which in Baudelaire's words is "vous, hypocrite lecteur, mon semblable...