Word: spinsterhood
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Died. Elsie de Wolfe Mendl (Lady Mendl), eightyish, mauve-decade Broadway actress (who numbered Ethel Barrymore among her understudies), haute monde interior decorator, international-set partygiver; in Versailles, France. She married Sir Charles Mendl after a long spinsterhood, lived into a fabulously sprightly old age, delighted gossip columnists with handstands at parties and hair dyes ranging from pink to vivid green...
...inheritance as a weapon, he drives off the fortune hunter and blasts her only chance of happiness. The Heiress is something less than the stern and oppressive tragedy James wrote (for one thing, Olivia de Havilland's seductive shyness and warmth make her an unconvincing candidate for spinsterhood), but it still has enough strength to make it better than the run of movies...
Nobody seems to know how often a male mosquito can mate. Perhaps he can mate only once, or at most a few times. If so, a sharp reduction (by siren song) of the number of males in a swamp will condemn most of the females to spinsterhood. They will lay unfertilized eggs and the next mosquito generation will be too sparse to distribute much malaria...
...Ramsay and more modest prospects which would make serious writing possible. Ramsay's brash, glittering daughter Barbara attracted him. When she turned him down, he ran to his second cousin Mary for comfort, mistook his infantilism for love, deceived Mary to boot. He married Barbara. Mary moved into spinsterhood, scientific work and philanthropy, became in the end an impressive woman...
Less famous than The Cherry Orchard, but just as good, The Three Sisters pictures hopes and longings turning to frustrations and regrets. The three Prozoroff sisters and their brother Andrey live discontentedly in a dull provincial town. Olga, the eldest (Judith Anderson), is already half-doomed to schoolteaching and spinsterhood. Masha, the second sister (Katharine Cornell), is a bored neurotic married to a fatuous pedant. Irina, the youngest (Gertrude Musgrove), still high-spiritedly dreams of romance. Brother Andrey (Eric Dressier), an intellectual weakling, still dabbles with the idea of a Moscow professorship. They all have one thing in common...