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Entered a policeman escorting Miss Bertha St. Clair Mason, 48, charged by Mr. Snowden with attempting to blackmail him. "I will break you politically and socially," threatened one of Spinster Mason's letters, "because you betrayed me 20 years ago." Under cross-examination she admitted writing the letters, but said they were meant for another Mr. Snowden. "It's just one of those cases of mistaken identity. I'm awfully sorry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Money with Menaces | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...advanced, Burgo master Baron Schimmelpenninck van der Roye arrived with a Dutch choir, proceeded to the Orangerie and staged a birthday serenade to Wilhelm II, 70. Clad in black fur-lined coat and astrakhan cap Wilhelm of Doom listened, seemed to especially enjoy a folk song called "The Bold Spinster." After thanking the choir and the Burgomaster Baron, he alluded to his famed hobby thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Kaiserlich Geburtstag | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...argument started when the noble Lady's knowledge of slum children was challenged by the Labor party's famed spinster M. P., Miss Ellen ("Wee Ellen") Wilkinson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament's Week: Feb. 4, 1929 | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...every corner the world around they took their stand last week as usual, just after nightfall. Tambourine shook, cornet squealed, trombone grunted. The thin bleat of pinched spinster voices, shrilling from time to time in accents of wailing fervor, took up the immemorial hymns. "Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Salvation Rift | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...local Fascist Mayor, Signer Cavalliero Porta, who caused a hydro-electric power plant to be installed within three months after his inauguration. Last week bulbs glowed in the Royal Chateau for the first time when a gold and ivory button was touched by Their Majesties' eldest spinster daughter, Princess Giovanna Elisabetta Antonia Romana Maria di Savoia, 21, often mentioned as a possible spouse for: Tsar Boris of Bulgaria. King Zogu of Albania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Progress | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

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