Word: spinster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been to the U.S. only once, to teach at Pennsylvania's Bryn Mawr, and that was 39 years ago. Most of her days are spent in tutoring, writing, helping edit the Cambridge Historical Journal, keeping the university archives, and campaigning energetically for the Labor Party. Social life? Says Spinster Cam: "I don't have any. Too busy...
...Maid was originally written for the perishable market place of radio. It is a near-slapstick story of a small-town spinster who plays hostess to a hobo until he runs off with her maid and car. The libretto is a gag-writer's dream, filled with skillful swoons (by Marie Powers, star of The Medium), gay tunes, and amateur-theatrical hamming. The audience loved every minute of it, right down to the final clinch and the hero's preposterous curtain line-"Your mouth is an abyss...
...sullen and cantankerous. "If that boy," he fumed, "ever shows the first inclination towards music, or noises disguised as such, I will kill it." Musical noises were just what the boy did incline to, and nothing his father said or did could stop him. On Sundays, his mousy spinster aunt sneaked him off to a church where he could hear an organ. By the time he was eleven, he was composing a church service every week ("I used to write like the devil in those days," he apologized later). He toured the petty courts of Italy and Germany, played...
Died. Princess Helena Victoria, 77, spinster granddaughter of Queen Victoria; first cousin once removed of George VI ; after long illness ; in London. A bright court figure in her youth, she helped hasten the change from the conservative Victorian to the gay Edwardian era by sporting colorful clothes, dancing the latest steps, taking in dog races and speaking her mind frankly in public...
...walls rumored to be bulletproofed against Civil War draft rioters. George S. Bowdoin, a partner of J. P. Morgan, acquired it some 20 years later. In its backyard is a cemetery with eight weathered headstones-one for each of the chow dogs buried there by Bowdoin's spinster daughter, Edith, who died five years ago. What was left of gilt and ormolu in the house glistened under new fluorescent lights. Businesslike desks, clacking typewriters and paid workers crowded the high-ceilinged chambers...