Word: spinsterdom
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...Lara. But these combine a distinctive Latin melodic gift with true poetic quality. With a kind of soft, confessional stridency, little hollow-eyed Lara whispers his songs to the women of Mexico. He pictures them in brothels, on their knees beside confessionals, in the arms of lovers, in frustrated spinsterdom. He is by turns caressing and despondent, lunar and neurotic...
...their idea to America's greatest heraldic wood carver in 1929 they were politely thrown out of the shop. The craftsman said he would not be party to such nonsense. He proved to his would-be elients that the lozenged shape of the ornament was the heraldic symbol of spinsterdom. Unmoved the Committee on House Decorations had the work done elsewhere...
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