Word: spinsterism
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...philosophical Winter Cruise, in which a ship's captain assigns a handsome young French steward to make love to a garrulous, middle-aged spinster (Kay Walsh) in order to stop her from talking. The spinster gives everyone a lesson in humility when she lets on at the last that she was aware of the dodge all along. In Kay Walsh's eloquent performance, the vignette has both pathos and point...
Died. Anna Maria Whitaker Pennypacker, 74, crusading spinster (and daughter of Pennsylvania's 1903-07 governor, Samuel W. Pennypacker) who was convinced that Communism is something her American Revolutionary ancestors would have approved and became a part-owner (1941-51) of the New York Daily Worker; after long illness ; in Philadelphia. A typical inspiration: after her only visit to the U.S.S.R., in 1934, Anna campaigned to have the Communists' annual Lenin memorial jamboree held in Convention Hall...
...spirit of C. S. Forester's 1935 novel. Bogart, cast as a Canadian instead of a Cockney, does the best acting of his career as the badgered rumpot who becomes a man and a lover against his will. Katharine Hepburn is excellent as the gaunt, freckled, fanatic spinster. Their contrasting personalities fill the film with good scenes, beginning with Bogart's tea-table agony as the indelicate rumbling of his stomach keeps interrupting Missionary Robert Morley's chitchat about dear old England...
...Real Solid Gold." The whole five-day interlude was a quiet, relaxing time, devoted to family and old friends. Harry Truman walked across the icy street from the Truman home, coatless, but carrying a cane, to take a present to his spinster cousin, Miss Ethel Noland, drove out to make a call on Miss Ethel's 70-year-old sister, Miss Nellie, who is recovering from an operation at Independence Sanitarium. He sent his excuses to a big meeting of the Truman Democratic Club, held especially in his honor. But as always, on his vacation visits, he received...
...Widow Wetmore. The year after Dr. Gibson became the spinster's heir, one of his patients died, and the doctor gave the widow, Ann Wetmore, a job as his receptionist. Lizzie Ayres was a bit jealous of Ann, but her fondness for Dr. Gibson did not cool: in 1949 she changed her will, making him the sole executor. In the spring of 1950 Gibson got a divorce, helped by Lizzie's testimony that his wife, from whom he was separated, had deserted him. That month, according to later testimony, he asked an official at Yale medical school...