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Word: bachelors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senegal, West African weekly, they were engaged to be married. Said the Princess-to-be last week before she sailed to join her fiance: "Every girl dreams of meeting a Prince and marrying him, and it looks like my dream will come true. . . . I really consider him a bachelor. After all, those wives are in Africa and we'll be in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRENCH WEST AFRICA: Cinderella | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...Bachelor Mother (RKO Radio), despite a title calculated to arouse the curiosity of censor boards, is as wholesome and comic a twitting as bastardy has ever received. Although Polly Parrish (Ginger Rogers) is not the mother of the seven-months-old baby she brings to a foundling home, no one will believe her, because the infant howls when taken from her arms. Her predicament is complicated when her ex-boss's scapegrace son (David Niven), solicitous for the baby's welfare, gives her back her old job and a raise. Polly and her pals proceed in persistent misunderstandings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 10, 1939 | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...Bachelor Mother was adapted from an eight-year-old German musical which songwriting Producer B. G. ("Buddy") De Sylva found tucked away in his sock. It was directed by RKO's current wonder boy, hawk-faced, 26-year-old Director Garson Kanin (A Man To Remember, The Great Man Votes). The picture is fresh, bright, human, hilarious, but its production was a series of crises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 10, 1939 | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

Felix Frankfurter's decision will cost him $1,435 of his $20,000 salary. Justice McReynolds, not voting in the 8-0 opinion, will as a bachelor pay more than any other justice: $1,660. Chief Justice Hughes' bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Judges Are Also Citizens | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

There the likeness ends. Tommy G is 38; Tommy L. J. is 31. Tommy G. is a bachelor; Tommy L. J. is married and the father of a 9-year-old son. Tommy G. disdains competitive athletics; Tommy L. J. once a 200-lb. guard on Fordham's football team, still loves golf, baseball, handball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Corks | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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