Word: spinster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taken the little money her father had left her, walked out on her domineering spinster roommate in London and bought a lonesome cliffside house on the Cornish coast. In her second novel, British Author Jon Godden* has drawn a terrifying picture of the consequences of Edwina's loneliness, a warning of the psychological perils that beset those humans who cannot make their terms with humanity...
...When she refused to withhold taxes from the wages of her 40 employees, the U.S. Government claimed and got $1,-685.40 from the Westport, Conn, bank account of Industrialist Vivien Kellems. Spinster Kellems promised to sue the bank, organize business men and women into a "mighty crusading force to abolish the withholding...
Albert Guerard certainly takes such care in his story entitled "Miss Prindle's Lover." It is the closest approach to old-style narrative in the magazine, and whether you happen to be interested or not--I was--in a story about the peculiar attraction a middle-aged spinster has for a young man, it is impossible to deny that Guerard has drawn convincing characters and taken them through a series of comprehensible events, rare virtues indeed...
...noticeable arrhythmia (irregular beating) when the doctor mentioned his in-laws; a woman patient's heart began skipping when the doctors referred to her illegitimate child; the same sort of extrasystoles (premature contractions of the heart) showed up on the electrocardiograph when they asked a 61-year-old spinster why she had never married...
...Choreographer De Mille's first all-out try at murder. She had long been fascinated by the story of Lizzie Borden, the Fall River (Mass.) spinster who was tried in the '90s for the ax murder of her father and stepmother. Last year ("because I was feeling gloomy and murderous") she started building a ballet to show in Freudian terms how a young girl might get worked up to murder. One difference: her heroine commits the murders onstage and hangs; Lizzie Borden was acquitted...