Word: bachelors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since Boris III, King of the Bulgarians, is a bachelor his eldest sister, Princess Eudoxia, 28, has had thrust upon her by default the duties if not the title of a queen. Eudoxia, by temperament melancholy and reserved, is little known to foreigners. Therefore when the Berlin National Zeitung began to publish her "memoirs," last week, a mild sensation rippled...
...lineups; sometimes they developed players who were afterwards "bought" by colleges. It was common practice for the big universities then, as it is for the smaller ones still, to entice able players to enroll as undergraduates, and spend six or seven years, to be graduated at length with a Bachelor's degree awarded, presumably for prowess in Sacred Studies and Botany. But before the birth of the Twentieth Century the universities began to organize, to make treaties with one another; football, already moderately standardized, became a science as rigid as modern warfare, and paid players became professionals...
...good, sensible, generous. A sturdy Gascon of Nîmes, he loves an occasional bull fight. "They please me," he once declared with habitual caution, "more than do some other spectacles that are supposed to be pleasant." The "other spectacles" included nothing not mentionable. M. Le President, though a bachelor, is accounted among the most celibate of that...
...Miss Fairneld is famed in England for being a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, a doctor of medicine, a bachelor of surgery, a barrister of the Middle Temple (law) a diplomat in public health...
...there is no escape, categories implying an imperative morality and a necessity for religion. There followed the massive metaphysical webs of Fichte, Schelling and Hegel in Germany. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) was the first German to assume Kant's metaphysics and proceed to something new. A sex-starved bachelor, he opened men's eyes to the importance of instinct, despite his pessimism, which argued: there is a life-force (Will) which makes us reproduce, then leaves us to struggle on; only intellect can save us, by objectifying self and studying life detachedly until the "wisdom of death" comes...