Word: spinsterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clementine Paddleford, an angular, friendly and fortyish spinster, is "food markets editor" of the New York Herald Tribune. Last week, sniffing some savory news from afar, she flew out to Fulton, Mo. to see what was cooking, sliced herself a cut of the Churchill-Truman story...
Copenhagen's School Board was startled. Inger Merete Nordentoft, Communist member of the Rigsdag, principal of a large school, and spinster, applied for three months' maternity leave. Board members grew curious. Who was the father? Would Miss Nordentoft marry him? The grey-haired 42-year-old schoolmistress, who had belonged to the Danish underground during the occupation, and had spent five months in a German prison, retorted that it was none of their business. She threatened to sue if they fired her. Already foster-mother of a year-old adopted child, she loves children, says they love...
Bruno Richard Hauptmann's son Manfred was left $500 by an 85-year-old New Jersey spinster who didn't know him but pitied him for being "handicapped" and wanted to help him in "his unequal struggle for existence." The twelve-year-old son of the Lindbergh kidnapper was last in the public eye in 1940, when he got $15,000 in Rochester, N.Y. for accident injuries. His benefactress also left $3,000 "for the care and protection of cats...
Died. Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, 71, realistic novelist of the new South; of a heart attack; in Richmond. A spinster who never went to school, she wrote her first story at seven, her 20th and last novel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning In This Our Life, at 68. Between the two she cultivated muscular ethics, a sinewy style, the flaccid enmity of the old South. To the1 impact of her novels, a critic testified: "Southern romance is dead. Ellen Glasgow has murdered...
...freckled, 33-year-old spinster, with a big nose and intense brown eyes, felt drawn to Mohandas Gandhi after reading a book about him. She was Madeline Slade, daughter of British Admiral Sir Edmond Slade. She left England to join Gandhi, became his personal attendant, took the name of Miraben (Sister Mira) from the Rajput Princess Mira who abandoned all to follow the Hindu god Krishna. Miraben was jailed twice for her part in the civil disobedience movement...