Word: spinsterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conscience after he is told that one of his four closest friends and associates is a secret enemy of the state and must be ferreted out. Comrade Nemeth must choose between 1) his best friend. 2) his fiancee-mistress. 3) a religious-minded old spinster. 4) a battle-scarred party veteran. Feverish with party zeal. Nemeth first fingers the religious old lady as a "reactionary clericalist...
Custodian of the Bees is a 61-year-old spinster so shy that none of her papers have ever printed her picture. "Newspaper people should stay on the sidelines," says Eleanor McClatchy, president of McClatchy Newspapers since the death in 1936 of her father, C. K. (for Charles Kenny) McClatchy, who took over the Sacramento Bee in 1883 on the death of his father, James McClatchy. Eleanor McClatchy's guide is a codicil to her father's will: "I want the McClatchy newspapers ... to maintain ever their freedom of action and their absolute independence...
...Essie Whimple, a mouse-humble cockney-accented taxidermist of crime sensations. When the wax cools on her tableau of a purple-scarf murder before the clues do, and the strangler begins stalking her, poor Essie hides out as a showgirl with a neighboring theatrical troupe. For Essie, a spinster of 29, whose lips have never touched liquor, cigarettes or men, the greatest thrill is to be close to the show's American strong man (Richard Kiley). The problem: who will get whose man first-Scotland Yard or Essie Whimple? In a Keystone chase finale, Essie gets both...
Frugally, quietly, and keeping her own counsel, Mary Clarke lived the uneventful life of a New England spinster. In 1947 she made her will, and in 1950, at 90, she died. Last week, surprised Smith College officials had good reason to wonder what sort of woman she had been. Spinster Clarke had seen no need to bother the college at the time, but in her will she directed that some $200,000 be held and invested by a Rhode Island bank until it grew to $400,000, then given to Smith. By last week, when Smith got the belated news...
...Hampshire parsonage in 1775, Jane Austen grew up in the world of the French and American Revolutions, and showed no trace of interest in either. The world of her six novels is simply and finally that of genteel young women gunning for husbands (she herself died a spinster at 41). Included inevitably in this world are harassed fathers and embattled moms, superfluous daughters and choosy suitors, haughty heiresses and dashing cads, all playing their parts in an endless round of dances, tea parties and chaperoned strolls, and doing their best never to cut a competitive throat without first casting...