Word: spinsterly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only American who has taken it upon himself over the years to do what he could to ease the nation's financial burdens. A dozen or so unsolicited contributions are received annually by the Treasury Department from individuals or their estates. In the 1960s, an 83-year-old spinster in Huntsville, Texas, left some valuable cotton and cattle land to the Government. The land has been sold, and the money is being paid in installments ranging from $11,200 to $124,365. For the past six years, one man has been sending in checks for what he calculates...
...graceless by O'Neill's wooden dialogue. But Arvin Brown's staging has a rich visual impact reminiscent of Fellini. A dwarf of a maid scuttles around the dinner table, which is dominated by a jolly drunken uncle (John Braden) sucking on lobster shells. Button-nosed Spinster Teresa Wright alternately gig gles and blushes in a new dress while Geraldine Fitzgerald presides as super-mother, projecting the presence of a queen, whatever the state of her court's dishevelment...
...brawling western seemed to reinvigorate Duke. Playing the same hard-drinking, one-eyed marshal who won him an Academy Award in True Grit, Wayne predictably chases an outlaw gang through the steep trails and canyons of the high desert. Joining in the good old pursuit is Kate as Spinster Eula Goodnight, out to avenge her murdered clergyman father. If the plot does not sound stirringly original, it at least gave the two aging stars a good workout...
...denizens of Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage for a while seem to be little more than the kind of dotty ménage à cinq that Wodehouse might assemble on a bilious day: Adela Bastable, a large, dim, goodhearted spinster; her brother Bernard, a retired brigadier with a bad leg; Shorty, once a quartermaster sergeant, now a friend and factotum; George Zeyer, a bedridden history professor (Bernard's brother-in-law); and Marigold Pyke, a faded beauty who cutely refers to drinks as "drinkle-pinkles" and English pounds as "poundies," thus driving Bernard round the bend. Amis is also clearly...
Cast as an indomitable spinster teacher in the pre-World War I South, indomitable Bette Davis was hard at rehearsals last week for Miss Moffat, her first stage role in 13 years. The Broadway-bound production, which opens in Baltimore next month, is a musical adaptation of Emlyn Williams' The Corn Is Green, in which Davis first starred for Warner Bros, back in 1945. "I'm delighted to have an opportunity to play the character again because now I look the right age," says Davis, 66, who has been working steadily through lunch and cigarette breaks...