Word: spinsterhood
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...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...
...Lady of Threadneedle Street." Since 1694 written records have been preserved of her spinsterhood. Now at last an old servant, one W. Marston Acres, long in her employ, is to write her biography. Last week the august Court of Directors of the Bank of England commissioned him to "compile a story particularly stressing the points of human interest in the history of the world's most famous bank...