Word: bachelors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that Dean Briggs is gone, "Copey" is the last of a vanished style in Harvard professors, in professors anywhere, for that matter. He himself is Dickensian, with his piercing glance to identify a caller or passery, his two bachelor rooms in the garret of old Hollis, his quick replies which from a less amiable nature might be crabhed but from him seem way and sprightly, and his remark in the introduction to his anthology: "As for Christmas Eve, it won't seem like itself if Mrs. Lowell stops allowing me to bring my book...." Time...
...name of public morality? It Chaplin's films had in them anything which the strictest Puritan could object to, the municipal censors might be justified. But no evil that he does lives on the screen. His pictures are clean in addition to being funny. When "Searing Kisses", "Bachelor Husbands", and "The Gilded Bed" are allowed, it seems strangely paradoxical that Chaplin's off-stage actions should be considered subversive of popular morality...
...last is only natural, but it is also quite necessary. Now that Dean Briggs is gone, "Copey" is the last of a vanished style in Harvard professors, in professors anywhere, for that matter. He himself is Dickensian, with his piercing glance to identify a caller or passerby, his two bachelor rooms in the garret of old Hollis, his quick replies which from a less amiable nature might be crabbed but from him seem wry and sprightly, and his remark in the introduction to his anthology: "As for Christmas Eve, it won't seem like itself if Mrs. Lowell stops...
Signor Mussolini has decreed a bachelor tax (See "Alalas"), assumedly with the deliberate purpose of increasing the pressure of already teeming Italians upon their frontiers. Does this mean that he envisions a war of conquest for new territory? Last week U. S. newsgatherers asked him this question as tactfully as they could. Instead of returning them a glare for their pains, II Duce, ruddy with health and vigor, seemingly in the best of humors, sketched his professed idea of how Italy is to expand without fighting. Said...
...Former Dictator Pangalos of Greece imposed a tax on bachelors which rose between age 20 and 40, and fell thereafter as the proliferous potentialities of the bachelor decreased. Bulgaria and the Irish Free State have a somewhat similar tax. A sensation was created recently in Sofia when a Turkish eunuch applied for exemption...