Word: bachelors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill enfranchising women, and the House would kill it. At the next the House would do the passing, the Senate the killing. Realizing that the men could not save their political faces forever with such trickery, the women campaigned ever more vigorously. When, in 1933, Michigan's Bachelor Frank Murphy became the first Democratic Governor-General in twelve years, they had the gallant ally they needed. With his help they finally got a suffrage bill passed...
...When Bachelor Frank Murphy went to the Philippines he took along his sister to be his hostess, his newlywed brother-in-law because his sister insisted on it. As soon as Mr. Murphy gave up his Manila post, Mr. Teahan left Mr. Murphy's payroll. About to take out his final U. S. citizenship papers, he currently works...
Colonel Green* became a life member of the Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias, but the upright Masons refused him membership. "Green's Flats," his bachelor quarters above Terrell's old Harris Opera House, were one of the town's gay places. Once the Town Marshal had to tell the Colonel to get rid of the women staying there. Barked the Marshal: "I don't care if you are the son of the richest woman in the world, you can't do such a thing in this town." The Colonel gulped...
...side as if his benevolence rolled about in him. He was like an old elephant who may be going to kneel." The once-lovely Kitty is now "one of those well-set-up rather masculine old ladies," and the widow of a Governor-General. Edward is a distinguished old-bachelor scholar. The young people look at the old; the old, who such a short time ago were young, try to remember but find it easier to look at their successors. Before they know it the dawn is in the sky. the party has kept them up all night...
...Gogarty is a distinguished throat specialist who works in an up-to-date hospital (built from profits from the Irish Sweepstakes), a married man and a father; but readers would hardly guess those facts from his book. Here he steers a carefree bachelor course from pubs to parties, escaping occasionally to drive his plane or shoot seals from a curragh, but always returning to drink with his friends, to be talked at and talk a sizzling blue streak. Only when the talk hovers on politics or poetry does the twinkle leave Gogarty's eye. "But nobody can betray Ireland...