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Baldish. a bachelor, with a high, nervous voice. Author Wilder writes like an educated angel, talks like an educated Poll, still feels that he has much to learn...
Finally came the laugh-provoking quip for which the Rumanian Senators were waiting. They all understood juicy Jorga to be referring to ascetic Bachelor Julius Maniu when he crushingly concluded: "People who do not sin usually do not sin because they are not able...
Racketing across country by motorbus, nine English compatriots were patriotically keeping themselves to themselves until a sudden drivers' strike marooned them in a little town. For two days they waited, enduring their enforced semicolon, gradually revealing to each other the meaning of their unfinished sentences. Julian was a bachelor, suave, middleaged; John, a talented young artist, was his son, though unaware of the fact. They amused themselves by observing their fellow travellers: a Jewish salesman, a secretarial spinster, an amiable widow, two girl chums, a pair of honeymooners. One by one their travelling disguises were discarded. The spinster, frantically...
...Bachelor Wood, 42, hates to leave his native Iowa where his fellow-citizens have been buying his pictures and singing his praise almost since he began painting. He is often convinced he is a better teacher than painter. In Munich. once mastered in a few weeks the technique of glass painting when German artists insisted on making a bearded Civil War soldier (for a Cedar Rapids memorial window) look like Christ...
...Charles Vance Millar, Toronto attorney, died. He had accumulated a fortune at the bar, at racetracks and in breweries. A bachelor, he bequeathed $500,000 of his estate to the Toronto woman who bore the most children within the ten-year period following his death. Last week in Toronto each of the two leading contenders for the prize money bore a child. Mrs. Frances Lillian Kenny, 31, gave birth to a girl, her eleventh child since the race began. Mrs. Grace Bagnato, 41, gave birth to a boy, her ninth child in the race...