Word: spinsterism
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...year-old Washington spinster named Margaret Shipman read the news of his incarceration with fire in her eye. Last week Miss Shipman, a wiry, retired schoolteacher who once circulated petitions for Sacco & Vanzetti, decided to rush to the rescue. Although she had never met Browder until the day before, she marched into Washington district court, dug 15 new $100 bills out of her battered handbag and demanded his release. Was she a Communist? reporters wanted to know. "Now that's none of your business," she said "and don't you make up anything." The authorities counted...
Southern Exposure (by Owen Crump; produced by Margo Jones, Tad Adoue & Manning Gurian) begins as a barn-door-broad spoof of those who inhabit and those who inspect the mortgaged old mansions of Natchez. Leading chatelaine-and character-is Penelope Mayweather (Betty Greene Little), a spinster who when not fluttering like a bird is secretly drinking like a fish. After a while the play shifts to farcical romance between an engaged Natchez belle and an enraged Yankee writer whose book Natchez has banned. But the satire keeps on recurring with the monotonous regularity of a lone rider on a merry...
...Turners were not destined to be happy in the first place. Dick Turner had married Mary because he was lonely. She married him because she was desperate to be married. Dick was a weak, impractical character slowly being licked by his farm on the veld, Mary an ingrained spinster with no conception of the give & take that marriage demands. Everything they owned had gone into the farm, and the farm had become their prison...
Washington, D.C. A visiting San Francisco spinster, who felt she had every right to see the President and screamed as much when three Secret Service guards stood in her way, went up for a sanity hearing. "The idea of a citizen going to see the President," argued her lawyer, "is not indicative of insanity. Mr. Truman is known as the common man's President, and the prevailing belief is that some citizens get in to see him." The jury agreed...
...When Spinster Ellen Burton reached the Congo, her equipment for work as a missionary consisted of a course at nursing school, a calm belief in God and a high quota of Indiana common sense. She needed all three. But she also developed a kind of talent that was not indicated by her attitude or training...