Word: spinsterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nearly 14 years, Scoopy, a tiger-striped torn, had made his home and office in an In box on the desk of Publisher Isabel Bryan, a seventyish spinster, in the cluttered basement office of the Villager. Scoopy's byline and photograph had graced a widely read column of jottings and musings ("Scoopy Mewses") on the editorial page. Artists painted Scoopy's portrait, photographers snapped him, the Christian Science Monitor sang his praises...
...fortune. After earning some $150,000 in vaudeville (hardly any of which she kept), Gertrude Ederle is now a 42-year-old spinster living in Queens...
...blame Harvard indifference; the whole thing is geographic. Fecundity increases in a westerly direction, and the fertile crescent appears to be the Rocky Mountain-Pacific area. Naturally coeducational schools are more prolific than bachelor or spinster academics...
Hunter & Hunted. Daughter Grace is a cowed, bloodless spinster who lavishes her love on brother Arthur, a Christlike embodiment of human goodness, an unambitious whittler of 40 who won't shoot a gun. Riding roughshod over the entire family is another son, Curt, a hard-bodied, dead-shot, ambitious, bully who loves hunting and the kill. On the morning the story opens, he is consumed by two desires: to track down the destructive mountain lion at large among the Bridges cattle; to seduce Gwen, the fiancee of brother Harold...
...main course: Agnes de Mille's Fall River Legend, with Nora Kaye, the big-eyed little ballerina who has made Fall River one of Ballet Theatre's signatures as well as one of her own. She spun through the story of the gentle, murderous New England spinster ("Lizzie Borden took an ax . . .") like something out of a Freudian nightmare, and her audience loved...