Word: spinsterism
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...modern literary figure combines Griswold's prominence, his position as a cultural master of ceremonies, and his un steady, enigmatic personal life. His second marriage was to a wealthy spinster of Charleston, S.C. He was 30. She was 13 years older, living with two spinster aunts. The women believed that Griswold and his two daughters had a fortune of $50,000. They did not. Griswold on his part dreamed of a winter home in the temperate South. "On his wedding night the bridegroom learned that . . . the woman who bore his name was, through some physical misfortune, incapable of being...
Lara's real life would make a movie to remember. Brought up in Coyoacán by a spinster aunt, he spent a rather solitary childhood writing poetry and tinkling at the piano. He attended a military school and, before he was 19, fought with Pancho Villa. Mustered out, he went to Mexico City and began his musical career as a whorehouse pianist. Today many of his songs reveal an intimate knowledge of bordello sentiment. Another permanent acquisition was a deep knife gash running upward from the left corner of his mouth. After witnessing a shooting affair which left...
Margaret Woodrow Wilson, now 56, and a spinster, broke with her family's Scotch-Irish Presbyterian traditions years ago when she stalked from church during Communion service. Flicking through catalogue cards in the New York Public Library four years ago, she came upon Sri Aurobindo's Essays on the Gita. For no special reason she took out this 300-page commentary on India's famous religious and philosophic poem, whose origin is lost in history. She read how "the lower in us must learn to exist for the higher in order that the higher also...
Last week in the House of Commons, copper-topped Dr. Edith Summerskill, who has practiced medicine for 18 years, moved "a prayer" for the annulment of Regulation 33B because it was inadequate. Said she: "The Minister of Health has approached this problem like a Victorian spinster reared in a country parsonage and sheltered from the facts of life...
...political liberty. If that succeeded, the world's weary history of successive tyrannies would change. If it failed, the bloody pattern of European and Asiatic history would merely have asserted itself in the world's last great unoccupied Lebensraum. It was with these thoughts in mind that Spinster Martineau looked at the U.S., 1834. And she looked at it on a scale that would have horrified her fellow spinsters in England and a good many Americans...