Word: spinster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Publisher Rene Julliard saw the first verses in Minou's childish scrawl, he thought he had found a literary prodigy even greater than his last discovery. Teenager Franchise Sagan. whose short, sexy Bonjour Tristesse is an international bestseller. He brought Minou from Brittany, along with 49-year-old Spinster Claude Drouet. who had adopted the child at age of two. Then he brought out a slim limited edition containing ten poems and ten poesy-struck lett&rs. Sample: I picked...
...keyhole-peepers had become only a tinkling obbligato behind the sterner voices. Whatever else the royal family may be in modern Britain-symbol of ancient legitimacy, shining emblem of Commonwealth unity, indestructible warranty of the glory that is Britain-it is first and foremost a family affair: every spinster is its maiden aunt, every shopgirl its happily envious kid sister, every vicar its parish priest, and every family man its authoritative uncle. In moments of relative calm, the country cousins can watch and enjoy the cavortings of their royal relations in London with the detachment of televiewers watch...
...captain and local poacher (Edmund Gwenn), who has just sent three rounds after a rabbit, finds Harry lying there with a little round blood spot on his forehead. "Oh, my!" he exclaims, for it is not hunting season. He is about to dispose of the evidence when the village spinster (Mildred Natwick) strolls by and. noticing Harry's distant manner, inquires politely, "What seems to be the trouble?" The captain explains, and the lady is most understanding. Their eyes meet. She blushes and offers him tea and a sympathetic muffin-after work...
When Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson took office two years ago, he announced his new farm program in much the same manner as a spinster discovering a new beauty lotion. Castigating the old rigid-price support program as costly and incompetent, Benson proposed a new flexible support idea which he claimed would cut wasteful surpluses while promoting farm efficiency. Answering Democratic criticism, he denied that his plan would lower prices for efficient and cooperative farmers...
...amusing characters. Her setting in this case-an independent kingdom on an island in the Mediterranean-is as believable and as funny as something invented by the early Evelyn Waugh. Her mixed bag of English people on a conducted tour includes an aging Scotland Yard inspector, a frightened spinster, a fluttery male dressmaker, a seductive female novelist. They can all be remembered for several days after the book is finished-a neat trick for a whodunit...