Word: spinsterism
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...mother's bedside, was again due to take the stage (in a matinee Aïda). She never got near the Met. Mrs. Teobaldo Tebaldi died that morning. The singer, beside herself with grief, was put under heavy sedation. The only child of long-estranged Italian parents, Spinster Tebaldi, 35, recently described her attachment to Giuseppina Tebaldi, 68, her constant companion, cook, dressing-room maid and angel in the wings: "My mother never leaves me; she is always with me. To my mother, I am still her little girl...
Matinee Theatre: Once the Democrats' most eligible spinster, Margaret Truman Daniel, 33, of New York and Independence, Mo., returned to show business (after a 1½-year absence) to star in her first live TV drama. The play that caught Margaret's fancy: Iris, the story of an eligible spinster, aged 31, who refused to rush things with her undependable steady (Ray Montgomery). "Like a cake in the oven," she tells him, "you open the door too soon, you ruin it." In the end, though, Iris bravely chucked the cad when she realized he was not returning...
Before some 2,000,000 enraptured viewers, Elsa has called Confidential Publisher Robert Harrison "a sewer rat," and allowed that "I have always wanted a falsie more than anything else in my life." Once Spinster Maxwell confessed that she "would just love to have a baby." M.C. Paar cringed and murmured a coast-to-coast aside: "Our first exclusive...
...major works of Henry Miller, I reflected much later, would always be locked up on rare book Erotica shelves and the keys bestowed to a spinster librarian. "Pornography and anarchism," I exclaimed bitterly, and longed for the bosom of Mother Advocate...
...with tongue-in-jowl introductions by husband Charles Laughton. The selections range from Fiji Fanny, a raucous burlesque of the songs the trade calls "grass-skirt numbers," to a haunted, spine-crawling ditty titled If You Peek in My Gazebo, which tells the tale of a mad New England spinster who sits each evening in a summerhouse on the hill secretly watching the lusty young village bucks stroll...