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Word: spinster (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Daughter of France, by V. Sackville-West. Louis XIV's scow-shaped spinster cousin, Anne Marie, who for years drifted sluggishly through the roiled waters of the French court, is portrayed by a witty biographer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Sep. 7, 1959 | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

Daughter of France, by V. Sackville-West. Louis XIV's scow-shaped spinster cousin, Anne Marie, who for years drifted undisturbed through the roiled waters of the French court, is portrayed by a witty biographer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Aug. 31, 1959 | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

Daughter of France, by V. Sackville-West. A witty portrait of the lumbering spinster who was Louis XIV's cousin, against a backdrop of her brilliant and squalid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Aug. 17, 1959 | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...other show, the script might have spelled disaster. There was the ambitious momma, dead set on getting daughter into show business-but with enough maternal instinct left over to mother a stray coyote, a spinster tourist and a Mexican wetback with a guitar. There was also the expected, easygoing dad, a navy officer son-in-law sore at momma's machinations, and a happy ending. But somehow, on the U.S. Steel Hour (CBS) last week, the thin substance of The Pink Burro stiffened into a commendable show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Oldest Alive | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

...Spinster, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. Memorable portrait of a wonderfully bizarre New Zealand schoolmarm with a passion for life and teaching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, may 18, 1959 | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

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