Word: spinsterism
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...defend the Bulgarian Communist, Georgy Dimitrov, in the Reichstag fire trial, and much later he spoke up for the rights of Nazis in the German-American Bund. He got his biggest fee-$578,000-in 1933, when he successfully broke the $50 million will of Ella Wendel, an eccentric spinster, on behalf of 60 heirs. In the '30s he defended Wall Street brokers, when he thought the SEC was trampling on their rights. "I hate censorship of business as well as of books," said Hays, who became rich on the fees of his banker and broker clients...
...young man is arrested for the murder of a rich spinster who had just made him her heir. His alibi is that he was at home when the murder was committed-which his wife will bear witness to. But at the trial the wife-who, it turns out, is not really his wife-repudiates his story. At this point things really start humming, but at this point must be enforced the First Commandment for whodunits: thou shalt not tell...
...Green Parrot. In A Simple Heart, Flaubert takes a plain-as-rain spinster housemaid and erodes her placid life with tragedies. From dawn to dusk, Felicité slaves for the Aubain family, all of whom take her toil for granted. She loves her young nephew like a son, but he dies at sea. Desolate, she clings to the delicate Aubain daughter only to see the girl die of TB. Felicité swaddles her grief in piety and finds a pet in a green parrot. After a few years the parrot dies too, and Felicité has it stuffed. Time robs...
...aging ladies with whom she rooms are a sweet-and-sour pair of spinster sisters. The sour one treats embroidery as the first law of life, but the sweet one clucks over Nora like a mother and puts in a word now and then about Peter Lynch, the headmaster at Nora's school, and what a nice husband he would make...
Before long Peter is putting in a good word for himself. At 40, he lives with a devoted spinster sister, who intends to hang onto her bachelor brother for dear life, and for life. Tired of fencing with her own love, Nora tells Peter about the TB jinx, and he waves it aside to propose...