Word: spinsterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opponent, Lucia Marie Cormier, 48, is a stocky, even-tempered spinster, an ex-schoolteacher and the proprietress of a Rumford gift shop, a Roman Catholic of French Canadian descent, effective minority leader of the state legislature and the darling of Maine's resurgent Democrats. Lucia Cormier was chosen to oppose Margaret Smith for her sex-but before she could claim the senatorial-race plum she proved in the rough-and-tumble school of state politics that she could outshine the men around...
Bells Are Ringing. A poor book and so-so score are rescued by lively Comden-Green lyrics and the extraordinary comic art of Judy Holliday, re-creating her Broadway role of the star-crossed, wire-crossed switchboard spinster...
Baltimore-born Spinster Henrietta Szold, at 49, was heartbroken because a romance with a rabbinical scholar had come to an end. As balm, her mother suggested a trip to Gilead. What Zionist Szold saw in Palestine under Turkish rule in 1909 made her personal troubles seem trivial. In Jerusalem's Old City, she saw a child's trachoma-dimmed eyes covered with flies, and when she asked the mother why the flies were not brushed away, she was told: "They will only return...
Boston, contrary to what you have probably been told, is no dessicated spinster. Although it still obeys the Blue Laws to the extent that it goes to bed at midnight on Saturdays and will permit no theatricals, gaming or drunken roistering on Sundays, it still allows (as anyone who enjoys walking Washington Street after 10 p.m. will know) a surreptitious kind of evil...
Judy plays a switchboard spinster who works for an outfit called Susanswerphone and lives by listening in-and sometimes horning in-on the lives of the company's clients. When destiny turns a deaf ear, Judy listens to the troubles (and the tunes) of a desperate dentist who aspires to be a songwriter and composes ("I love your sunny teeth") on his air hose. But she bestows her most tender loving care on "Plaza oh double four double three (Dean Martin), a playboy playwright. Operator Holliday eventually makes a person-to-person connection, and after several sorts of trouble...