Word: spinsterhood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...finally revolts against his wife and gleefully dons his rightful, symbolic trousers. This time he is stirred to action by his extraordinarily pretty third daughter (Bette Davis) who wants to marry a boy whom her mother dislikes and so escape the fate of her two sisters, fast shriveling into spinsterhood. The wedding takes place in the parlor while mother and two elder daughters are at the movies, and father, impregnated with hard cider, has summoned up enough courage to give his consent. Later, of course, the opposition returns and what was funny becomes funnier...
...Aunt Emily, his expectations of feeble old Uncle Percy. Overwhelmed by the thought of naming her two children Percy and Emily (the two little donkeys are trotting down there on the sand), Miss Alice bursts out laughing, and snatches the chance to run back to the shop and her spinsterhood...
...print sickly, squeaky letters telling how good you are, flabby droolings from mushy, bigoted monks, and long discussions on doubtful spinsterhood...
Wary, Japanese men have for centuries not infrequently refused to marry "Hinuma girls." Despondent, such maidens often commit suicide if they remain unmarried until 20 years of age- the traditional limit after which irredeemable spinsterhood sets...
...Martin '26 has abandoned the spinsterhood taken on last year to become a garter magnate, and incidentally Forsythia's hard-hearted uncle. M. H. Clifford '27 has risen from the scrubwoman of "Peter Called Prince" to become housekeeper, and J. P. Crosby '28 will impersonate Mrs. Smith, fair, fat and forty...