Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan career girls are born in the Midwest and tantalize men by biting their ear lobes. Bigtime gangsters send their sons to Princeton. Men are only big overgrown boys and have terrible taste in furniture. Women hate each other and get hysterical at the sight of blood. When a bachelor stops his convertible on a side road at night and murmurs "How about it, huh?" he is of course proposing marriage...
Chill winds whipped across Kansas last week, smearing drought-mulched dust across the sky in dismal yellows. But things were not quite so grim as they looked. In Emporia, Farmer Robert George, 50-year-old bachelor, was teased by his kin for getting married, they said, on "Government rent." Ex-servicemen heading for the state V.F.W. convention joked about the wheat crop they had "already harvested." Some vacation-minded farmers counted their "Florida money." One and all, they were talking about the payments they get from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's soil bank for taking land...
...closing, he observed, "The biggest difference I've noticed between Harvard and Chicago is that the girls are much prettier here. Is that too wicked for a bachelor like...
...Search. In Johannesburg, South Africa, Bachelor John Henry King, 105, met and proposed to Widow Fannie Excell, 87, commented: "At last I have found the right woman...
...four-hour, 363-question test given to would-be Twenty One contestants, Vivienne scored third highest in the show's history-just ahead of John Kieran Jr. and just behind Van Doren (her husband was seventh). A sometime painter, pianist and Double-Crostics fan, she has a bachelor's degree (cum laude) from Queens College. New York, an M.A. and LL.B. from Columbia, has served as a legal assistant to Chief Justice Arthur Vanderbilt of the New Jersey Supreme Court. With Husband Victor, Vivienne lives in a 3½-room Greenwich Village apartment only four blocks from...