Word: spinster
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drink now and then, belongs to no church. He married a social worker, had three sons, was divorced and married again. A psychoanalyst told him he was repressed because he had been the middle child in his family, had had little attention. He makes friends easily not only with spinster social workers whom he kids along but with politicians, artists and writers...
...sitting room of the Van Bret mansion of Fifth Avenue in 1910; in this atmosphere, and as an integral part of it, appears Victoria Van Bret; guardian of the Van Bret millions, tyrant of the Van Bret household. Around the commanding presence and warped soul of this queenly spinster revolves a tense drama of hate and fear, swelling in an unvarying crescendo of emotional strain to a brilliant climax in the last scene. "Double Door" is not a great play, but it is one of the most effective utilizations of a single atmosphere to achieve a high degree of emotional...
...Boston last week a spinster poured out a bag of walnuts on a bank counter. A teller smashed them open, found in each pair of neatly glued shells a $5 gold-piece. In Waukesha, Wis., an elderly woman passed a handful of gold-pieces to a bank teller. "They're good," she said. "That's just a little mildew on them. I kept them in a bottle hanging by a string in my well." In Manhattan all one evening the dark cavern of Maiden Lane echoed with unaccustomed footsteps as one after another, clerks, stenographers, women in shawls...
Time, measured by minutes or months, seconds or centuries, is as trickily undefinable as electricity. Author Howard Coxe's well-told tale attempts no definition but shows with ingenious clarity that one way of looking at time is backwards, over one shoulder. His story of a spinster's life begins with her death sentence, ends with the interview in her girlhood that lost her her lover. This reversal of the time sequence has a natural advantage of giving the story a marked crescendo. With his second book, Author Coxe has come a long stride forward since his first...
MURDER OF A MISSING MAN-Arthur M. Chase-Dodd, Mead ($2). With a carload of near-witnesses, including a New York detective, it takes a sharp-eyed little spinster to ferret out both the identity and the murderer of the corpse in the end compartment. The voluble Mr. Goldstein helps...