Word: spinsterism
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...warmly human, quietly humorous mysteries, after a stock-market panic in 1903 threw the Rinehart family $12,000 in debt. When Staircase sold (1,250,000 copies so far), she went on writing, reached her popular peak in the era of her serialized (Sateve-post) sentimental adventures of a spinster named "Tish," still sternly kept regular office hours in her 70s. Mrs. Rinehart once shrewdly appraised her own honorable journeyman status in letters: "If I agonized like a Chekhov over my work, and I did, the resemblance ceased there...
Miss Page turned in consummate portrayals of the divorcee and the spinster (which Margaret Leighton attempted so inadequately in the pre-Broadway tryout here two years ago). Her performance in either play alone would have been an impressive achievement. But her ability to undergo such a transformation during intermission was almost uncanny. And this was much more than a change of costume, makeup and wig; she did it through her posture, gait, gesture, diction and other ways. Through extraordinary muscular control, she was able to change her whole repertory of facial contours from those of a stunning beauty to those...
...spinster, as the really grandes dames usually are. And she is known to sit quietly in a straightback mahogany chair--Colonial period-- in a drawing room of shadows, counting her memories on a rosary. She accepts visitors and offers them...
Died. Marion Hilliard, M.D., 56, Canadian gynecologist whose thoughtful essays on the act and fact of love won transcontinental gratitude; of cancer; in Toronto. With "a happy bedroom" the central aim of her medical philosophy, Spinster Hilliard published many articles in Chatelaine, collected them in one best-selling volume (A Woman Doctor Looks at Love and Life...
...acting honors go to Miss Page for her portrayal of the divorcee and the spinster (which Margaret Leighton attempted so inadequately in the pre-Broadway tryout here two years ago). For some reason I had never seen her act before, and it is a pleasure to report that all the acclaim and awards she has received are well deserved indeed...