Word: spinsterism
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...African Queen. A prissy spinster (Katharine Hepburn) and a gin-swilling skipper (Humphrey Bogart) triumph over jungle heat, hardship and the hangman's noose in John Huston's Technicolor version of C. S. Forester's adventure yarn (TIME...
...Want to Flourish." Outwardly, Gwen John was as reticent as her painting. Inwardly, her life was one of intense feeling, rebellion and search. She was a spinster who became the mistress of Sculptor Auguste Rodin, an agnostic who turned to the Roman Catholic Church. In his new book, Modern English Painters, published last week, Sir John Rothenstein devotes a chapter to Gwen John, tells much of her story for the first time...
...African Queen. A prissy spinster (Katharine Hepburn) and a gin-swilling skipper (Humphrey Bogart) triumph over jungle heat, hardship and the hangman's noose in John Huston's Technicolored version of C. S. Forester's adventure yarn (TIME...
...seldom practiced because he was too absorbed in masterfully chronicling classic trials and crimes (mostly murders); of a cerebral hemorrhage and pneumonia; in London. A chapter in his Bad Companions, recounting a celebrated 1810 slander suit that followed a vindictive schoolgirl's false accusation against her two spinster teachers, was the inspiration for Playwright Lillian Hellman's 1934 Broadway hit, The Children's Hour. Fact-Writer Roughead was called by Novelist Dorothy Sayers "the best showman that ever stood before the door of a chamber of horrors...
...original form"), Uncle Remus ("when read aloud"), and Tom Sawyer ("despite its Negro stereotypes"). But for some of the other classics, it holds no brief at all. By last week it had placed on its Index: ¶ Black Beauty-"Poorly written . . . Black Beauty is more a mid-Victorian spinster than a horse...