Word: spinsterism
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...Once during the Civil War when Liz decided that Abraham Lincoln was running the war badly, she rushed off to Washington to tell him so. Satisfied that Mr. Lincoln was really the man for the job, she directed her energies into good works for distressed Negro children. At 66, Spinster Liz started the nation's first public kindergarten. She was past 80 when she went to Washington to lobby for mistreated Indians, just short of 90 when she died, her mind busy with women's emancipation and machinery for world peace...
...cottage near the sea at Marldon, Devonshire, lives a little spinster named Elizabeth Goudge. Pottering about her garden or taking tea with friends, she could pass for a spiritual D.P. from the Mid-Victorian Age whose most violent activity is the occasional pressing of a rosebud in a volume of Lamb's Essays of Elia...
...trial with him was Helen Campbell, a grandmotherly spinster who, as Thomas' chief secretary, had carried out the salary kickback scheme on orders from the boss. Helen Campbell, in a fit of conscience and disgust, turned on Thomas and told what she knew. Columnist Drew Pearson printed the full story, leading the Congressman to his downfall. For her "free, frank and full" confession, Judge Alexander Holtzoff let Miss Campbell go free...
Never Dies is a sad and solemn novel about India Severn, a spinster U.S. missionary in Siam who cannot rid herself of the conviction that God's work matters more than mission budgets, and who acts accordingly. While her fellow workers trim their efforts to the capacity of the church purse, India packs her mission house with street arabs, a fast-stepping floozy and other unfashionable outcasts. So, while neighboring missions gleam with the spick & span look of good work efficiently done, India's Jasmine Hall assumes more & more the look of a flophouse. When economizing U.S. mission...
...Heiress. The story of a spinster's revenge on her father and lover, sumptuously told by Producer-Director William Wyler; with Olivia de Havilland and Ralph Richardson (TIME...