Word: spinsterly
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...President Wilson's three daughters, Spinster Margaret and Eleanor McAdoo live. Neither was among the Foundation banqueteers, nor was Mr. McAdoo, who had flown from California to take his seat in the Senate this week. But present was Widow Edith Boiling Gait Wilson (second wife) who chatted and shook hands with another great Wartime leader, pale old General John Joseph ("Black Jack") Pershing. Also there was Francis Bowes Sayre, the other Wilsonian son-in-law whom President Roosevelt had made Assistant Secretary of State. His two children, Francis Bowes Sayre Jr. and Eleanor Axson Sayre, laid a wreath...
...concerned with the players' financial struggle. And to them it was irrelevant that the conductor they were about to watch was putting to the hazard a reputation which had splendidly justified his poor immigrant Russian parents, years ago, in letting him be adopted by a New Haven spinster, Miss Charlotte Ingersoll, so that he could have training. What the Carnegie Hall crowd wanted to find out was whether there could be such a thing as a real bargain in symphonies. And when they filed out two hours later they had been convinced that there, could be. Seats had cost...
...less than give Spanish women the right to vote. Last week they wished they had given them almost anything else. Too late Don Manuel Azana, a fiery feminist during his 20 dictatorial months as Premier of a Socialist Coalition government, remembered the words of the smart British-blooded spinster he made Minister of Prisons, Senorita Victoria Kent: "Spanish women are not prepared for the ballot...
...devotion to the rest of the community are a planter and his half-sister who keeps house for him. When the planter marries, his sister kills herself; the community discovers they were living in incest. The worst white man on a little island attracts the attention of a withered spinster-missionary; to the amused amazement of everyone except the predatory virgin, she conquers him. The man-eating Russian wife of a Scottish scientist tries to get her claws on her husband's priggish young assistant; his heredity and the environment of a storm rescue him, ruin...
Similar feelings must have been felt by a member of the Saltonstall family, who wrote to the Secretary for information in University Hall whether he was aware that the cough-drop shaped affair on the Dunster Gable was the mark of a spinster. To this the Secretary replied, with some wit, asking whether Mr. Saltonstall did not consider his Alma Mater a spinster...