Search Details

Word: bachelordom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Unrecorded by Hansard* | 9/3/1923 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Unrecorded by Hansard* | 9/3/1923 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 |