Word: spinsterism
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...there is one point on which Professor Morison must employ his most cautious tread. One of the loveliest sages of modern Harvard is that involving the selection of the Lowell House coat of arms, and Mr. Coolidge's perturbation when he was informed that his House sailed beneath a spinster's colors. Perhaps this is not so. But Professor Morison, whatever he may wreak upon windows or upon letterheads, ought not to profane it. Clearly it has that large glamor of the grotesque which comes only too infrequently and which is over to be cherished...
...News out next morning: electric linotype machines. The Denver Post had a whole battery of them: the hated, hating, blatant old Post whose late Publisher Frederick G. ("Bon") Bonfils had been lambasted by the News until he died last winter. Since "Bon's" death his vigorous spinster daughter Helen, 38, has been running...
...Companion Toklas: "I am going to write it as simply as Defoe did the autobiography of Robinson Crusoe. And she has and this is it." In Robinson Crusoe Defoe does not appear, but in Alice B. Toklas Gertrude Stein is nearly the whole show. When Miss Toklas, unattached spinster with artistic leanings, met Gertrude Stein in Paris (1907) she immediately recognized a genius. "I may say that only three times in my life have I met a genius and each time a bell within me rang and I was not mistaken. . . ." (Other bell-ringers: Painter Pablo Picasso, Philosopher Alfred North...
...best. An unrepining spinster, at 39 she finds plenty to do; besides her writing she takes an active interest in the Little Theatre movement, in the formation of women's lunch clubs, is in demand as a lecturer (she will lecture in the U. S. next January'), likes walking, badminton, tennis. Other books: The World's Bane, Cat-in-the Manger, The Spinner of the Years, The Partnership, Trio...
...ALBUM-Mary Roberts Rinehart -Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Murder in a sequestered group-and a prying spinster finds romance while solving the crime...