Word: spinsterism
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Readers of his autobiographical Plough man of the Moon may be surprised to learn that Rhymester Service was once a Scottish bank clerk. Born in Lancashire, England, he was brought up in Scotland by his grandfather and three Bible-addicted spinster aunts...
Miss Phillips is in dead earnest about her "personal crusade." Neither her sponsor (General Mills) nor NBC has gone out of its way to encourage her. The U.S. Treasury was once politely cool to her offer of Guiding Light as a free medium for selling war bonds. But shrewd Spinster Phillips, certain that she is on the right track, has hired a special "sociological and psychological adviser" to help her carry...
...Corn Is Green (Warner) a very honest adaptation of Emlyn Williams' stage hit about the intrepid spinster who brought literacy to a Welsh coal town, has all sorts of well-intended ingredients, but as drama and as entertainment they come out lumpily, like somewhat heavy dumplings. There are several reasons. Besides the best one-that it wasn't really a very good play to begin with-the others are honorable minor defeats in an uphill battle. But they help explain why the movie, though it may well have a good run too, is less impressive than the play...
Daughter Emily was thin, graceful, with a wide mouth, an upturned nose and large, haunting eyes - a goblin face. Her sister Lavinia was a village spinster, in her later years became cross, sharp-tongued, quarrelsome and grasping, with long black hair, broken, irregular teeth (mostly false) and dirty hands and fingernails. Their brother Austin married Susan, their school girl friend, a tavernkeeper's daughter. Susan soon became involved in a lifelong feud with sister-in-law Lavinia...
Womanly Infiltration. Her organization was not autonomous, and Miss Mac herself had no command as such; as director of the WAVES she merely stood in the background, giving advice and, like a wise spinster aunt, smoothing things out. Her WAVES were a womanly infiltration into certain spots where they could pick up, straighten out and perform some chores even better than...