Word: spinsterism
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...spinster snapped back at Kinsey that men are "prancing, leering goats," eh? Well, one prancing and leering bachelor-until a spinster married me-snaps back that the female population still is a lovely bunch of goatherds...
...sold 250,000 copies in the U.S. and Canada, plus thousands in six translations. It outraged many moralists, infuriated not a few scientists who questioned its reliability, and was a boon to radio comedians, who found that Kinsey's name had become an acceptable synonym for sex. One spinster snapped back at Kinsey that his elaborate study only confirmed what she had known all along-that "the male population is a herd of prancing, leering goats...
...inquest Looby sat with bowed head and listened to Spinster Deady's trembling voice again. "Ralph was shot down like a dog because he parked his car," she cried. "You ruined my life when you shot down the man I loved. He didn't even have a chance to say, 'My God, forgive my sins.' " David Looby was charged with murder...
There were several reasons for their truly Universal sense of debt to the Prophet. Before he admitted them to the church, they had simply been plain Chicago schoolteachers, the spinster sisters Evelyn and Esther Jackson. But the Prophet grandly gave them titles, and they emerged the Princesses Bluntella and Essentina. On top of that, in 1949, he "cured" their 70-year-old mother's goiter by sending her to Gary, Ind. four times to get a drink of water in the bus station...
...give, as Ed Ruffin did, often meant to give up. Ed began by giving up college. When his father died he went home to North Carolina, to take care of the plantation and his spinster aunts. As a result, he also gave up the girl who might have married him as a lawyer but not as a farmer. In his loneliness, Ed married an older woman who could not give him a child. When she died he got married again, this time to a world-worn divorcee with a small...