Word: spinsterism
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Senorita Mercedes Castellanos achieved politest world renown (TIME, April 23) when it was announced at Madrid that she, an orphan & a spinster of 47, would shortly be taken to wife by the Dictator of Spain, General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, Marquis de Estella...
...Born. To Spinster Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst, famed militant suffragist, a son, Richard Keir Pethick; in December; at Woodford Green, Essex, England...
...Group. Shrewder newshawks stressed Mevrouw Van Eeghen's unique distinction; she was, last week, the only female member of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange. To find a similar business woman in the U. S. one must search out pretty, audacious Miss Peggy Cleary of Manhattan (TIME, April 2), the spinster-stockholder who bid $375,000, last fortnight, in an effort to obtain a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. In Amsterdam the buzz of tickers ceased to have meaning, last week, for Mevrouw Van Eeghen. Removed to a hospital, she lay at first unconscious, and later sphinxlike by advice...
...country clergyman, moves from the humble but well-beloved village of Morning Sun to a college town so that his children may have the advantage of college education. When this has had its effect, redheaded, eccentric Warren is a well-tamed professor; Sarah is a kind, sensible, placid young spinster; Wilma is married and faraway; Wilfred, who had especially liked rabbits or other animals, is dead in France. Wise Mrs. Bonney is dead too, and foolish, likable Mr. Bonney has inexplicably taken himself another wife. This humble, quiet homily, neither gay nor tragic, has a brown plainness of treatment...
...famed J. P. Morgan) as saying that she considers "utterly without foundation and untrue" reports that she is engaged to Prince Louis. Paris papers had originated the story, had frenzied over the indisputable fact that His Highness would soon be in the same city with a great U. S. spinster whose wartime services have endeared her to France almost equally with that great U. S. widower, Myron Timothy Herrick...