Word: spinsterism
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America's greatest woman painter, Mary Cassatt, a spinster famed for her pictures of mothers and children, got her first big U.S. show last week, 15 years after she died in France...
...Clytie winds up with a spinster drowned in a rain barrel...
This hoard of modern art came from the rambling West Redding, Conn. farm house of a 64-year-old spinster named Katherine S. Dreier who has painted, collected and talked about modern art for almost 30 years. One of modern art's U.S. pioneer converts, massive, hemp-haired Katherine Dreier stored away abstractions like a Connecticut squirrel hoarding nuts for a hard winter. Other later and richer art squirrels sometimes, got bigger and tastier nuts than Katherine. But her hoard contained more different kinds than any body else's in the U.S. Unable to house it properly...
...century, however, all ventures outside the bounds of the U.S. had acquired a bad name. By 1939 the imperialism ("Manifest Destiny") of 1898 had been long regarded as a pain in the bowels and conscience of the U.S. The timid internationalism of World War I was a spinster memory, pressed like a dead flower between the forlorn pages of the League of Nations...
...last $10 to get from Boston to Manhattan where, on the strength of her experience as stenographer and part-time editor of the puny Boston Beacon, she got a job with the Woman's Home Companion at $18 a week. Last week Gertrude Lane died, a late-fiftyish spinster, one of the few great women editors* in the U.S., a vice president of Crowell-Collier Publishing Co., and although she had never asked for a raise, earning $52,000 a year...