Word: bachelors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he arrived in Amsterdam, the young painter was a burly bachelor with a gay, stubborn face, a sociable manner. One of his first jobs was The Anatomy Lesson, for Dr. Tulp, an impressively theatrical work. He promptly became Amsterdam's most popular and richest painter. His portraits of that time were, comparatively, the emptiest he ever did. He spent money hand over fist, on tapes tries and brocades, on good living and on the paintings of his contemporaries. He frequently opened the bidding with a price three times what any Dutch burgher ever paid for a picture...
...convinced that certain pupils have made so fine a contribution to the progress of humanity that their efforts and their success should be called to the attention of the world. The mistakes made in conferring honorary degrees are fewer and less regrettable than those made in conferring the ordinary bachelor's degree of which, most unhappily, thousands are annually bestowed upon expert cheats and educated crooks. . . . THORNWELL JACOBS...
Tipped off before the bidless box was opened, Premier Hepburn hopped back to Toronto by plane from the bush, where he had been fishing with-of all people- President John P. ("Jack") Bickell of Mclntyre Porcupine Mines (gold), "richest bachelor in Canada," and Manhattan's legendary speculator, Bernard E. ("Ben") Smith, who is called a "money magnate'' in the Dominion Press. The Government's counter attack was planned at Jack Bickell's home located at Port Credit. "The financial interests undertook to discipline the Government of Ontario because of its stand on the power purchase...
...less grave than his contemplative Eden Tree, Guest Book nevertheless contains several sprightly amusing poems, several that strike a deep note of sadness and concern. Hospitable and urbane, Author Bynner has among his 70 guests a Communist and a patriot, a liar, a painter, a hostess, a debutante, a bachelor, maintains the same good manners, the same ironic detachment toward all. A depthless scorn is revealed only for the poetess who "would have ordered God from the front door if he had come in clothes that meant the back." Literary detectives may believe they recognize originals like Amy Lowell...
...Business Board requests that we do something for Read & White of 111 Summer Street, Boston, "a steady and consistent advertiser" and assures us that it would be "a gratefully received bit of cooperation" if we would run an item saying that they have "academic costumes--bachelor's, doctor's, master's or what-not--for last-minute demand...