Word: spinsterhood
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...cocky tabloid Daily Mirror (circ. 4,665,000) asked its more influential brother (circ. 221,972): "Would the Times have preferred this vivacious young woman to marry one of the witless wonders with whom she has been hobnobbing these past few years? Or to live her life in devoted spinsterhood? Luckily the Times cannot banish Princess Margaret. It speaks for a dusty world and a forgotten...
...during a drought. The play starts off, like Barrie's What Every Woman Knows, with the efforts of a plain girl's father and brothers to find her a husband. Lizzie is all the wrong things-uncoy, intelligent, blunt; failure unnerves her; and she is bleakly staring spinsterhood in the face when a posturing, flamboyant young con man (Darren McGavin) blusters in, swearing that for $100 he can bring rain. With the money in his jeans, he spouts philosophy, poetizes, woos the girl, teaches her to have faith in herself. By the time he rides off to make...
...relatively easy to judge productions of The Heiress, for in the play itself the last scene serves as an infallible barometer. When Catherine, the plain, painfully shy heiress, decides at last between marriage and spinsterhood, the audience must be completely braced for her decision; they must feel an unusual emotion compounded of pity, irony, disappointment, and pride. Because the actors in Idler's production of The Heiress convey all this and more, the performance is a definite success...
...record for all U.S. married males by seven points. College women have not been so fortunate: 31% of them have remained unmarried as compared to only 13% of all U.S. women. It would appear, concludes the survey, that for many women college "amounts to an education for spinsterhood...
...author to remain a wishy-washy wordster forever. A humdrum little tale by Henry James, The Death of the Lion, gives no indication of the labyrinthine richness he was able to manage when he felt like it. To the contemporary eye, only George Gissing's grim story of spinsterhood, The Foolish Virgin, seems fit to rank with the best of The Yellow Book painters and draftsmen (Beardsley, Sickert, Beerbohm, Sargent, Steer, Cotman, Guys...