Word: spinster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Alice Stone Blackwell, 92, pioneer suffragette, daughter of Bloomer Girl Lucy Stone and Abolitionist Henry B. Blackwell; in Cambridge, Mass. Spinster Blackwell once remarked, after women had been voting for 25 years: "Women's suffrage hasn't done all the good we intended it should [but] neither has it done the harm its opponents predicted...
Then Attlee dwelt sarcastically on Churchill's alternate use of scorn and entreaty to win the nine-seat Liberal bloc to the Tory side. "He has been a very ardent lover of this elderly spinster, the Liberal Party," he said, and the House tittered. Lady Megan Lloyd George, 47-year-old Liberal spinster, blushed and laughed with embarrassment. Other M.P.s, with mock gallantry, cried: "Withdraw!" But Attlee went right on. "I can never make out," he said, "whether the Right Honorable Member for Woodford [Churchill's constituency] is going to play Petruchio or Romeo. He gives...
...Once during the Civil War when Liz decided that Abraham Lincoln was running the war badly, she rushed off to Washington to tell him so. Satisfied that Mr. Lincoln was really the man for the job, she directed her energies into good works for distressed Negro children. At 66, Spinster Liz started the nation's first public kindergarten. She was past 80 when she went to Washington to lobby for mistreated Indians, just short of 90 when she died, her mind busy with women's emancipation and machinery for world peace...
...cottage near the sea at Marldon, Devonshire, lives a little spinster named Elizabeth Goudge. Pottering about her garden or taking tea with friends, she could pass for a spiritual D.P. from the Mid-Victorian Age whose most violent activity is the occasional pressing of a rosebud in a volume of Lamb's Essays of Elia...