Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unless education is radically reformed both below and at the college level, Adler states, "the bachelor's degree mast remain a travesty on the liberal arts from which it takes its name. We will continue to graduate, not liberal artists but chaotically informed and totally undisciplined minds...
...British delegation's press officer. At 30 he became Under Secretary for Dominions in his father's cabinet, handed his increased salary of $5,700 back to the Government on the ground that the $1,520 he earned as an M.P. was enough for a bachelor.* In 1935, when Ramsay MacDonald and Stanley Baldwin switched jobs and Baldwin became Prime Minister, Young Malcolm, then only 34, became a full-fledged Cabinet member as Colonial Secretary...
...years at Amherst he guided no fewer than 56 men into the ministry. Then Boston's Trinity Church, the granite Romanesque pile where Phillips Brooks had risen to fame, called him. He accepted, cut the job's $15,000 salary to $10,000 because he was a bachelor. He plunged into Trinity's manifold activities -40 parish organizations, with a budget of $130,000 a year, called on as many of his 2,000 parishioners as he could manage...
Policeman Hoover has never been known to have had any woman-affair in New York City. A bachelor, he is seldom seen without a male companion, most frequently solemn-faced Clyde Tolson, his assistant. His reason: his dread that someone, some day, somewhere, will plant a naked woman in his path, try to frame...
...Welcomed into benedicts' ranks bounding, longtime Bachelor Thomas Gardiner Corcoran (who married his secretary, Peggy Dowd). Washington wits surmised Peggy had struck for better hours; wondered how the news hit No. 2 Braintruster Ben Cohen, whom The Cork has long jestingly called "My Wife...