Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supremacy of the words over the drawing. Using pared sticks (the kind that restaurants send out to stir coffee) as pens, he usually gets his drawing right the first try. But he has rewritten captions as many as 15 times, often working on the subway while riding from his bachelor apartment in Brooklyn Heights under the East River to Manhattan...
...memory is dimmed by the bitter fact that the war itself turned out to be the obliterating modern thing he himself had predicted. His Broome Park house, which Bachelor Kitchener had hoped would be another Blenheim for his ducal bones, was sold and became a hotel. As for last year's veiling ceremonies at Khartoum, the Sudanese for whom he had founded a school may have scamped the job. His horse's bronze legs stuck out from under the covering. Thus his true memorial is not an Oxford graduate's biography nor a Kipling's "lest...
...infidelities, could be turned out on the flimsiest charge of "disobedience" or reduced to the status of a servant to a new mistress in the house. But three years ago, when South Viet Nam became independent, the women found a champion. As sister-in-law and official hostess of Bachelor President Ngo Dinh Diem, dainty Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu, 30, a Christian, is not only the first lady of a Buddhist land; she is also the most determined feminist since the late Emmeline Goulden Pankhurst...
Well-read, friendly Arthur Lichtenberger graduated from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio and went on to the Episcopal Theological Seminary, Cambridge, Mass., for a degree of bachelor of sacred theology. After postgraduate work at Manhattan's General Theological Seminary, he was ordained in China in 1926, began his ministry as missionary professor of New Testament at St. Paul's Divinity School in Wuchang. In 1928 he returned to the U.S. to be rector of Grace Church in Cincinnati, Ohio for five years, then rector of St. Paul's Church in Brookline, Mass, for eight years...
...telling how high, really, penurious Bachelor Harry Schweitzer, 75, could have built the pile if the City of New York had not arrested him last week. Charges: grand and petty larceny, violation of social welfare laws for playing the market over the past seven years out of his $71.10 monthly welfare payment...