Word: spinsterly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...other great man'' and that in her opinion II Duce "felt like a nursemaid taking care of a victorious child" during some of his meetings with the Führer. Hitler, riding through Berlin beside Mussolini, according to Miss Wagner, "gave the general impression of a fussy spinster seated beside the first real man who had come...
...little over one hundred years ago Harriet Martineau, a deaf but gifted English spinster, toured the U. S. equipped with reforming zeal, a philosophical and inquisitive mind, and a huge, old-fashioned ear trumpet which she aimed like a blunderbuss at the people she questioned. She discovered that only seven occupations were open to U. S. women: domestic service, keeping boarders, teaching young children, needlework, weaving, typesetting and bookbinding.* In 1840 two U. S. ladies, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, attended a World's Anti-Slavery Conference in London, were first barred because of their sex, then permitted...
Most autobiographies centre on the autobiographer, but Playwright Williams', for reasons that become plain as the play progresses, centres on the character played by Ethel Barrymore. She is a cultivated, middle-aged spinster who moves to a Welsh village toward the end of the 19th Century, bent on educating the local coal miners. Discouraged by tory opposition, she gets the will to go on from the presence of one coal-stained boy who promises great talent...
This week the sovereign State of Missouri will set aside a day to honor a plump, loquacious spinster, Mary Margaret McBride, ex-citizen of Paris, Mo. Miss McBride, whose previous citations include an award from the Wall Paper Institute, has distinguished herself throughout the land as the most-listened-to female heart-to-hearter. Since 1934, under her own name and the pseudonym Martha Deane, she has babbled furiously about friends, featherbeds, food, life in Missouri, New York and Europe. Until a couple of months ago, she was heard over both CBS and the MBS station WOR, serving Columbia...
...best gooseflesh dramas in years, Kind Lady is an especial favorite with Brady because it is tailored to the talents of his wife, Grace George. In 1935, as a gentle, fragile spinster kept prisoner in her own home by a gang of terrifying crooks intent upon driving her potty, Miss George won great critical kudos. It was repeated last week...