Word: spinsterism
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Before she shut herself up in her Natchez plantation home 40 years ago, Jane Surget ("Miss Jennie") Merrill, spinster, daughter of a onetime U. S. Minister to Belgium, was widely reputed for good looks and charm. Fortnight ago Miss Merrill emerged from her seclusion-a bullet-ridden corpse. Her murder not only stirred old memories among septuagenarians in Natchez but also gave romantics of the Southern press an opportunity to write floridly about departed social glories. The dead woman's father was Ayres P. Merrill, a friend of President Grant who sent him to Brussels. Oldtimers vaguely recall that...
Formidable Frau Tony Sender, 43, Reichstag Deputy and member of the Social Democratic party, is one of the best known women politicians in Germany. Recently an opponent referred to her in debate as Die Sexappealische Fräulein. Sex-appeal is a fighting word to Spinster Sender. She immediately sued for slander. Last week three white-cravatted Berlin judges rendered their decision: It is no slander in the German Reich to accuse a lady of possessing sex appeal, "but the expression is infelicitous and not in very good taste...
...hopes of nearly 1,800 claimants to share in the $30,000,000 estate of the late Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel, eccentric Manhattan spinster (TIME, April 6, 1931 et ante) went glimmering when Surrogate James A. Foley took steps to strike from the list all but 27 who claim fifth-degree (or closer) relationship. Of these 27 the fifth-degree relationship of nine has been conceded by the estate. Five of the nine sold their interests to 14 charitable institutions named as beneficiaries in the will for $7,500. cash down, $17,500 more if the will is broken...
...Consent (RKO) is a serious cinema of college love. Richard Cromwell quarrels with his sweetheart, Dorothy Wilson, later apologizes and is forgiven, proposes marriage. She tells him to finish his remaining two years in college. After a spinster teacher tells her how she once was similarly magnanimous, Dorothy changes her mind, telephones Richard. But he is compromising himself with a waitress, Arlene Judge, who presently gets her father and demands marriage. Dorothy Wilson consoles herself by a ride in the snappy car of Eric Linden, a smart-cracking admirer. They turn over, Linden is mortally injured. Dorothy Wilson...
Died- Leonore Cawker, 58, Milwaukee's famed dogcatcher, vice president of American Humane Society; in Milwaukee. A rich spinster, she spent her life and fortune in succoring stray animals, was appointed official dog-catcher in 1915 at $500 annual salary, next year obtained a raise to $1.200. Her best publicized act was saving the fire department's horses .from being killed for fox farm food when the department was motorized. Died. Edward Everett Eslick, 60, Congressman from the ;th Tennessee District; instantly, of heart disease while addressing the House in behalf of the Bonus; in Washington...