Word: spinsterism
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...novels bring her fame, riches, even Paradise House. Money enables Angel to capture a husband, and bore him to death. She turns his spinster sister into her slavish admirer. Her gentle publisher views her with pity and terror. Nearly everyone else is appalled by her selfishness, her indifference to the pain of others. But people cannot touch her, for Angel is totally without humor and icily armored against embarrassment, against all reality...
Stewed Crow. Interwoven with this main theme is one more private to White: the girl who was left behind wins the lost cause. Laura Trevelyan is a spinster, a philosopher among the Sydney Philistines. She loves Voss enough to know the real nature of his quest and that she is, in spirit, "the sole survivor" of his doomed expedition. Amid the crudity of a still colonial society, the quality of a Laura Trevelyan will prevail, White seems...
Died. Louise Schroeder, 70, mild-mannered spinster who gained international admiration as Berlin's Acting Lord Mayor (1947-48) during months of the taut, East-West political contest for the city, climaxed by the Russian blockade and the Allied airlift that broke it; of a heart attack; in Berlin...
Died. Alice Rohe, 81, veteran spinster journalist and magazine writer, the first woman to head a foreign news bureau (United Press in Rome, 1914), the first woman (1927) to interview Mussolini after his rise to power; in Manhattan...
...Portland, so-called Spinster City of the West, the Oregon Journal last week handled the year's hottest story with spinsterish restraint. While witness after witness testified, before a U.S. Senate committee that Teamsters' Union bosses had plotted with city officials to monopolize Portland's rackets, the Journal (circ. 181,489) primly avoided editorial comment. Though the Journal gave wire-service reports of the hearings heavy play in its news columns, it-made no attempt to report local evidence of Teamster-racketeer relations. Reason: since its opposition daily, S.I. Newhouse's Oregonian (circ. 230,850), first...