Word: spinsterism
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...TINY DIAMOND-Charlotte Murray Russell-Double day, Dor an ($2). Vacationing in Chicago, a practical, small-town spinster discovers her landlord's corpse, scolds the police, shadows a cross eyed man, gets thrown downstairs and discovers the ingenious criminal...
...Borden walked down town to do some business errands. Bridget, her first chores done, went up to her room to lie down. Mrs. Borden, 64 and fat, puffed up the front stairs to change the pillow slips in the spare room. That left only Stepdaughter Lizzie, a spinster of 32, unaccounted...
George Frobisher is a he-sprinter who lives a carefully protected life with his spinster aunt. Both of them have plenty of money, spend their lives playing first-rate croquet and bridge, keeping aloof from any sort of unpleasantness. At a French health resort George meets a Dr. Finchatton, an intense fellow who has come there for treatment of his badly jangled nerves. Finchatton spins George a ghostly yarn: he had had a country practice in England in a place called Cainsmarsh, just the kind of quiet district he wanted. Before he had been there very long, the place began...
...Gods (London Film) is based on the triangle of a matinee idol (Sebastian Shaw), his actress wife (Gertrude Lawrence) and a spinster secretary (Miriam Hopkins). When the secretary breaks off her affair with him because his wife is about to have a child, he resolves on that stage-worn device-actually killing his wife when as Othello he is smother ing her as Desdemona. This time, how ever, Desdemona lives to reconquer her Othello...
...abroad its livest spark plug. Now almost a year old (TIME, March 16 et seq.), the E. P. C. announced that during January and February some 300 speakers, laymen and clergymen will talk for peace in 1,000 U. S. cities. At their head will be a lame British spinster of 60 whom many a religionist considers the greatest preacher of her sex in the world - Dr. A. (for Agnes) Maude Royden. She arrived in Manhattan last week, proceeded to Baltimore for the first speech of a tour which will take her to San Fran cisco and back...