Word: spinsterism
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Cincinnati is one of those rare cities in which a society editor is the social tsarina -Marion Devereux, a spry, birdlike, fiftyish spinster who inherited from her mother the society editorship of the polite. McLean-owned Enquirer* No party is held without her consultation months in advance as to date. An event scheduled against her advice is doomed to obscurity. Mothers and daughters may object to her domination, but not in her presence. For Editrix Devereux has at her command such social barbs as "She appeared encased in that striking green dress which has graced so many previous occasions." Last...
Virginia, English spinster and university graduate, had a great idea. She would adopt a newborn orangutan, bring him up like a human child, make him gradually over into a human being. She got the orangutan, called him Appius, removed herself and him to an isolated cottage where for ten years she carried out her great experiment. Mother, servant and teacher all in one, Virginia brought up Appius with firmness and faith in the way well-behaved little boys should go. Up to a certain point things went well. Appius walked erect, called Virginia "Mama," spoke out his simple ideas...
...picture: a picture thief (Conrad Veidt), his accomplice (Hugh Williams), a cinemactress (Esther Ralston), a businessman eloping with his partner's wife (Joan Barry), a fuzzy British tourist with a regurgitative chuckle (Gordon Harker), a U. S. millionaire traveling with his secretary, a chief of police, a nervous spinster. The picture thief's accomplice renews an old romance with the cinemactress while the picture thief is murdering a timid little rascal for stealing a Van Dyck which, through a confusion of briefcases, finds its way into the compartment of the U. S. millionaire. The businessman is suspected...
Last week, with Librarian Charles Knowles Bolton, 65, retiring after 35 years at the Athenaeum, every one thought it perfectly suitable that Miss Elinor Gregory should get the job. An erudite, quick-smiling, pleasant-voiced spinster, she had been Librarian Bolton's chief assistant for a decade, had lately been practically running the place. Said she: "Of course, the Athenaeum will remain exactly as it is." Also last week. Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams was re-elected president of the Athenaeum, having served for a year...
Nine years ago, an energetic, middle-aged spinster who had fought the good fight for women's votes, who was a lieutenant in an ambulance unit but did not get to France, who was a good friend and committee-mate of many of Manhattan's ablest socialites, took up the profession of helping other women make money. Daughter of a well-to-do Kentucky family, since girlhood she had speculated in the stockmarket, at the height of the boom was said to have piled up $6,000,000 profits. As an investment adviser, well-recommended by many...