Word: spinsterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Washington, D.C. A visiting San Francisco spinster, who felt she had every right to see the President and screamed as much when three Secret Service guards stood in her way, went up for a sanity hearing. "The idea of a citizen going to see the President," argued her lawyer, "is not indicative of insanity. Mr. Truman is known as the common man's President, and the prevailing belief is that some citizens get in to see him." The jury agreed...
...When Spinster Ellen Burton reached the Congo, her equipment for work as a missionary consisted of a course at nursing school, a calm belief in God and a high quota of Indiana common sense. She needed all three. But she also developed a kind of talent that was not indicated by her attitude or training...
...fact Leo's intellectual life was almost wholly given up to a prolonged self-analysis on Freudian lines. He diagnosed a big part of his neurosis as a "pariah complex," and for the last 25 years of his life he tended his complex as lovingly as a housebound spinster caring for a windowful of potted plants...
When she died a spinster of 55 in 1886 only five of her poems had been published, all anonymously. But there were well over a thousand more scattered among friends and relatives and in the 40 little booklets in her bureau...
Mercer's Maidens. In a negative way the emigrants influenced the New England they deserted, for by stripping their home states of cash and customers they left a lot of the stay-at-homes out of work. The New England spinster, not always old and homely, was also a product of the exodus of Yankee men. The thought of all those girls back East going to waste drove western bachelors wild, made them plead for someone "to bring a few spareribs to [the western] market." Finally a personable young bachelor named Asa S. Mercer, first president of the brand...