Word: bachelored
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...Manhattan's Surrogate's Court appeared a Mrs. Estelle Lynn Werner to sue the estate of Daniel J. Leary, late lumber baron, father of international bachelor-girl Cosmopolite Beth Leary, for $1,750,000 in securities which she claimed was given her in token of "our beautiful friendship." Commented Leary's executors, replying to her suit: "Baseless . . . utter fraud typical of the immoral . . . relationship out of which it has grown...
...downcast, his bald head shining dully in the soft glow from the vast skylight. Inches from his right hand was the gavel, the symbol of the authority he would now wield as Speaker of the House, until death or defeat of the Democrats. Sam Rayburn, 58, of Bonham, Tex., bachelor, shorthorn breeder, and for seven years a moderator of the New Deal, was waiting to speak his piece...
Suave Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop Parker's present successor, is a bachelor. But he has an interest in matters matrimonial-as he showed during Edward VIII's abdication crisis in December 1936. Last week His Grace's Commission on Kindred and Affinity as Impediments to Marriage handed him a report. It recommended that the Church henceforth give its blessing to a man marrying his: father's brother's wife, wife's father's sister, wife's mother's sister, wife's sister, brother's wife, mother's brother...
...philandering bachelor of Springtime for Henry, Horton has plenty of opportunity for the jittery mugging that averages him $80,000 to $100,000 a year in Hollywood. Much to his taste is a role that deals frivolously with love. In all his contracts, Horton includes an unwritten clause that he shall not be compelled to play a married man, kiss a woman, have any children. A bedside-bottle hypochondriac, he is nervous about his diet, which is rigidly supervised by his 82-year-old mother, who accompanies him almost everywhere. Feverishly interested in antiques, Horton has acquired all kinds...
Senator McNary has the wise and cynical expression of an old bachelor, though he has been widowed once, is now married to the former Cornelia Morton, who was told of her husband's nomination while she was in a Salem grocery store. Said Mrs. McNary: "I couldn't believe it. Charles had wired me this morning that he wouldn't accept the nomination...