Word: spinsterism
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Actress Julie Haydon plays radiantly as the simple-hearted slavey, makes the Canon's conversion entirely credible. Chief among the excellent supporting cast is Sara Allgood. Her plump, pious spinster was so richly comic that first-nighters chortled at her every gesture...
...usual, the B. B. C. was putting its official glaze over the facts, for everyone at the London Palladium saw and heard King George roaring and Queen Elizabeth laughing till the tears came at the way Cicely Courtneidge burlesqued a "larky spinster," at Gracie Fields scratching herself as an itching mill girl and at Jack La Vier hopelessly entangling himself in a trapeze after he had announced, "Now I'll show you just how far insanity has advanced...
...favorite story of Julia Kippen Jaffray's concerns a friend who sent her rayon dress to the cleaners and got back only buttons. The dress turned to jelly. Julia Jaffray is a Canadian-born spinster of some 50 years who has made a name for herself in prison reform as secretary of the National Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor. Miss Jaffray is also much interested in women's club work and for the past year or two she has been the spearhead of a women's club drive which last week had the rayon industry seething...
Last summer this old fortress of personal good works turned with the times as its directors chose to succeed Founder Addams as head-resident an efficient, practised public charitarian. She was Charlotte Carr, executive director of New York City's Emergency Relief Bureau. A tall, hefty, genial spinster who studied at Vassar before the War, Miss Carr left her job as employment manager of Knox Hat Co. in 1923 and soon became acting director of the New York Labor Department's Division of Women in Industry under Frances Perkins. After that she served as director of Pennsylvania...
...village character in Salisbury, Md. is seventyish Spinster Mary H. Parsons who was left a substantial estate by her father, Levin Parsons, and who spends her time with one eye on her knitting, the other on stock market reports. Owning a row of brick tenements, farm lands, and a batch of securities. Miss Parsons insists on living in one half of a frame duplex house without electricity or bathtub, wears cotton hose and gingham dresses, likes to haggle with grocers over not quite fresh foods. As kindly as she is money-conscious, she has been known to spend several hundred...