Word: bachelors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diabolically cunning, never let him get any proof, though apparently she took on any handy man, at any hour. If Authoress Canfield is to be believed, Lixlee was not only a nymphomaniac but a sadist; finally she turned golddigger and ran off with the town's rich old bachelor. Anna, married now herself, could no longer help her brother in the old maternal way, but her matchmaking reaches a successful issue when her candidate came back to town and picked up Anson's alcoholic pieces...
...Coliseum, Omaha celebrated its autumn festival, the "Coronation of His Royal Highness King Ak-Sar-Ben XXXIX and His Gracious Consort the Queen, at the Royal Castle of Quivers." Crowned King Ak-Sar-Ben XXXIX (Nebraska backwards) was Hotelman Eugene Chase Eppley, 48-year-old bachelor. Queen was Margaret Monell Doorly...
...Authoress Waddell's narrative finds him at the peak of his career, the shining star of the Paris Schools. When old Fulbert, canon of Notre Dame, invited Abelard to share his house and tutor his beautiful niece Heloise, Abelard was living the unconsciously uncomfortable life of a natural bachelor. Under Fulbert's roof he quickly caught fire from Heloise's adoration. One night the old man found them in bed together...
...years in the War, emerged with the rank of captain, the Croix de Guerre (won at Verdun), the Medaille de Leopold II. Twelve years ago he began to make regular visits to the U.S., has lectured at Columbia University, University of Chicago, Northwestern, Iowa State et al. Still a bachelor, on trips to Manhattan he stays at the Harvard Club...
...consider it a privilege to be associated with Secretary Hull. We served together for years in the House, a long and delightful association which I am glad to renew." Correspondents did not miss the genuine cordiality between these two grey-heads. In Robert Walton Moore, 74-year-old Virginia bachelor. President Roosevelt had given Secretary Hull, aged 62, an old-time Democratic friend to replace intelli gent but insubordinate Raymond Moley. Assistant Secretary Moore would not clash on policy with Secretary Hull, would not run to 'the President with tales of his superior's incapability, would not divide...