Word: spinster
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, his late spinster Sister Eliza left $2,000 "in recognition of his unfailing generous and constantly loving care during my entire life and in token of the deep affection which I have...
Probably the ablest religious editor of any U. S. newspaper is Rachel Kollock McDowell of the New York Times. A plump, energetic spinster in her 50's, Miss McDowell loves her work. She regularly has 25 reporters assigned to cover Sunday sermons, bombards the city desk with memoranda urging additional coverage of religious events. Armed with a capacious handbag she personally reports important gatherings like the Presbyterian General Assembly-dear to her heart because she is devoutly of that faith. Indomitable Miss McDowell hates swearing, sends out a memorandum every New Year's Eve reminding the staff...
...Vienna, Suicide Emma Albrecht, 47, spinster, left a note: 'T could not go on living after the unfaithfulness of my beloved canary, Hansi, who for six years had been my sole companion." Hansi had flown away...
Axel Anderson, fireman, had almost won the hand of Rita Coates, teacher, when the Lynn. Mass, school committee intervened last month to say that Miss Coates could not have both her job and Axel. "This condemns me to the life of a spinster," mourned Rita Coates. "I have no choice unless I wish to desert my father and mother who are absolutely dependent...
...demonstrations. Galleries who watch a player unique for the uncanny accuracy of her iron shots, which are the weak point in almost every other woman's game, are usually surprised, no matter how low Joyce Wethered's score is, because they expect it to be lower. Soberly Spinster Wethered, who holds the world's record for women (68, made last summer at Woodbridge, England), tried to explain what, for her, were mediocre scores last week: "The change from amateur to professional has affected my game in a way I really cannot describe. Perhaps it is a feeling...