Word: bachelordom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This Woman Business" passes three acts in the agreeable proof of that old psychological fact--you can't win. A six months orgy of bachelordom of all the Copley males except Mr. Clive is interrupted by Miss Dixon, who uses the assets acknowledged above to gain herself five slaves and one husband. The gaining thereof is a lesson in a technique older and more rigid than that on the stage...
...current: The Love Thief [nee Praying Curve], The Dark). Herein an epidemic of red-headed babies visits Astoria, Long Island, and where should suspicion light but upon the ruddy thatch of Herbie Salute, the only adult member of the community with hair to match? Herbie is reduced to lonely bachelordom for one act, but absolution and a lucky horse bring health, wealth and wisdom in time for the last curtain...
...Bachelordom is in its essence Conservative. You are born a bachelor and die a bachelor. You stick to tradition. I cannot quite envisage a Liberal or a Laborite a bachelor. It is a contradiction in terms. Woman is the revolutionary; the bachelor is Conservative...
...have young men among us who are not like the old men in the safe anchorage of bachelordom. They are beset by terrible dangers. They are not like me. I have climbed to the summit of the rock and am safe from the cruel, devastating foam of aggressive femininity...