Word: spinsterism
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Rosalind Russell, aging slowly from a young (22) bush nurse to a hearty, outspoken spinster of 59, is excellent as Sister Kenny. A good friend and admirer of her living model and currently a director of the Kenny Foundation in Minneapolis, Actress Russell was the one who nagged RKO into making the picture. While remaining more handsome and lovable than her model could ever expect to be, she nonetheless manages to suggest the cantankerous personality which has made the real Sister Kenny a great fighter and a great nuisance...
...been on the boards since you used to sit on your father's lap at the neighborhood Burlesque, romped into town this week with a routine that sent a front row of bald heads rolling into the aisle and put a fold in the whalebone corset of someone's spinster aunt. Not since Stinky and Shorty pervaded the atmosphere of the Old Howard has this Hub sniffed anything resembling Lahr's patter, and not since Margie Hart twisted her ankle on a faulty runway have Beacon Hill Burghers seen-even on the sly-a morsel like Irene Allarie, who bumps...
When Faustina Setti, 50-year-old frugal spinster, plunked down her savings (30,000 lire) on the promise that the poetess would find her a mate, Mona Leonarda proffered a glass of drugged wine, then felled the spinster with a hatchet, chopped her into nine pieces, and kept the change...
...George and Lady Ida had three children. Edith, the eldest, is the sad-looking, six-foot, sixtyish spinster now renowned for her exotic garb, her exotic prose, her "glittering plinths of jacynth" poetry. The elder son and successor to the title is Osbert: traveler, memoirist, novelist, literary crony of the King & Queen. The younger son is Sacheverell, amateur of baroque art, and biographer of Franz Liszt...
...Author. Tall, blue-eyed Eudora Welty, a spinster of 37, has never lived in the Delta country ("It just seemed . . . a good place for the events to happen."). Daughter of an insurance company executive, she was born, bred, and still lives in Jackson, Miss., where she quietly passes her time writing, painting and photographing. She also likes flowers and "soft music, classical music, as well as dance music-and triumphant bursts of music." She is a member of the Junior League...