Word: spinsterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This hoard of modern art came from the rambling West Redding, Conn. farm house of a 64-year-old spinster named Katherine S. Dreier who has painted, collected and talked about modern art for almost 30 years. One of modern art's U.S. pioneer converts, massive, hemp-haired Katherine Dreier stored away abstractions like a Connecticut squirrel hoarding nuts for a hard winter. Other later and richer art squirrels sometimes, got bigger and tastier nuts than Katherine. But her hoard contained more different kinds than any body else's in the U.S. Unable to house it properly...
Cousinage. In Washington, shares in the half-million-dollar estate of a spinster were claimed by 2,006 self-styled cousins...
...century, however, all ventures outside the bounds of the U.S. had acquired a bad name. By 1939 the imperialism ("Manifest Destiny") of 1898 had been long regarded as a pain in the bowels and conscience of the U.S. The timid internationalism of World War I was a spinster memory, pressed like a dead flower between the forlorn pages of the League of Nations...
...last $10 to get from Boston to Manhattan where, on the strength of her experience as stenographer and part-time editor of the puny Boston Beacon, she got a job with the Woman's Home Companion at $18 a week. Last week Gertrude Lane died, a late-fiftyish spinster, one of the few great women editors* in the U.S., a vice president of Crowell-Collier Publishing Co., and although she had never asked for a raise, earning $52,000 a year...
...graduates of 1,048 colleges and universities. Some findings: >By the time they are 40, three-quarters of male graduates are professionals or executives, less than 8% ordinary workers. >More than half of all college women have salaried jobs. Nearly half are unmarried. This is twice the national spinster rate...