Word: spinster
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less than give Spanish women the right to vote. Last week they wished they had given them almost anything else. Too late Don Manuel Azana, a fiery feminist during his 20 dictatorial months as Premier of a Socialist Coalition government, remembered the words of the smart British-blooded spinster he made Minister of Prisons, Senorita Victoria Kent: "Spanish women are not prepared for the ballot...
...devotion to the rest of the community are a planter and his half-sister who keeps house for him. When the planter marries, his sister kills herself; the community discovers they were living in incest. The worst white man on a little island attracts the attention of a withered spinster-missionary; to the amused amazement of everyone except the predatory virgin, she conquers him. The man-eating Russian wife of a Scottish scientist tries to get her claws on her husband's priggish young assistant; his heredity and the environment of a storm rescue him, ruin...
Similar feelings must have been felt by a member of the Saltonstall family, who wrote to the Secretary for information in University Hall whether he was aware that the cough-drop shaped affair on the Dunster Gable was the mark of a spinster. To this the Secretary replied, with some wit, asking whether Mr. Saltonstall did not consider his Alma Mater a spinster...
...there is one point on which Professor Morison must employ his most cautious tread. One of the loveliest sages of modern Harvard is that involving the selection of the Lowell House coat of arms, and Mr. Coolidge's perturbation when he was informed that his House sailed beneath a spinster's colors. Perhaps this is not so. But Professor Morison, whatever he may wreak upon windows or upon letterheads, ought not to profane it. Clearly it has that large glamor of the grotesque which comes only too infrequently and which is over to be cherished...
...News out next morning: electric linotype machines. The Denver Post had a whole battery of them: the hated, hating, blatant old Post whose late Publisher Frederick G. ("Bon") Bonfils had been lambasted by the News until he died last winter. Since "Bon's" death his vigorous spinster daughter Helen, 38, has been running...