Word: spinsterism
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Cousinage. In Washington, shares in the half-million-dollar estate of a spinster were claimed by 2,006 self-styled cousins...
...graduates of 1,048 colleges and universities. Some findings: >By the time they are 40, three-quarters of male graduates are professionals or executives, less than 8% ordinary workers. >More than half of all college women have salaried jobs. Nearly half are unmarried. This is twice the national spinster rate...
Same day Bethlehem Steel's President Eugene Gifford Grace was publicized as second-highest-paid U.S. executive, fiery septuagenarian Spinster Zara du Pont, munitions family maverick and Bethlehem stockholder, sued him, the corporation and 17 other Bethlehem officers and directors for $1,000,000, charging wasteful expenditures of that amount for labor-baiting...
...Wilson is a normal and decent person. Mrs. Walton is a grown-up baby; Marge, who has long pursued a young aviator, David Roberts, is pathetically lustful; Gracia is a self-indulgent, sentimentalist, and John Graves is a washed-out pedagogue. Also present are Kate Harris, a scientific spinster of amorous regard, and Murray Bartlett, romantically in love with Gracia, but quite incapable. And David Roberts is there...
...Author. Ellen Glasgow has probably thought more unconventional thoughts than any other gentlewoman in the South. But she has lived a thoroughly conventional spinster's life in the big, grey, brick, Georgian house at No. 1 West Main St., Richmond, Va. Since a heart attack last summer she has scarcely left it. No. 1 is a stately Southern mansion with an iron-fenced front yard, a brick-walled back yard. There are tall magnolias, myrtles, box, ivy, lots of flowers. Ellen's father, who was manager of the Confederacy's only heavy-calibre cannon foundry, bought...