Word: spinsterly
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...principal elements are a woman's ear, a Siamese cat, a crayfish, a fog which covers the whole world. The other stories are trial balloons inflated by Gerald. They involve an eerie Gothic cathedral, with a mystic message for those who know how to find it ; an English spinster who is saved from suicide by tooth ache and theosophy; a couple of professors who wonder if they can exchange bodies simply by willing it. (They can.) But the nicest concurrence of the two Heards comes in the subtle, uncanny Rousing of Mr. Bradegar, the story of a simple dream...
...There's something horrible in the world," said Spinster Margaret to her bosom friend, Spinster Emily, as they sat together in their snug, rich home in the suburb of Wedgewood. "It's these dreadful new ideas. They want to destroy everyone who has a little something, a little education, a little breeding." Then she stroked Emily's hair. "Pretty grey hair," she said, "we're getting old together." After a moment she added: "Have you ever noticed how older men prefer young girls?" "Sensible men don't," Emily replied a little coldly. "I know, dear...
...young." On her recent first trip to Manhattan, she surprised her transport pilot with her ready ear for smoking-car subtleties. So far she has said nothing in public except "H-m-m-m-m-m-m-m." This is delivered in the tone of a cordial spinster to the man under...
...decaying Tennessee mansion, three women brooded in their porch chairs. Crazy Grandma Lewis mumbled to an imaginary visitor that her father was away "in the service of the Confederacy." Spinster Aunt Willy dreamed about her chestnut stallion-the only creature she could bring herself to love. Cousin Daphne (her bridegroom had abandoned her on their wedding night when he found she had no money) toyed with the more poisonous specimens of her beloved collection of rare mushrooms. Suddenly the rank growth that ringed the old house parted and Granddaughter Catherine Lewis Chapman stumbled onto the porch. Her husband had been...
...Major Mary Bell, 50, spinster. A longtime schoolteacher (French, Latin, history, mathematics), she was dean of women at Coe College in Iowa when she joined the WAG (then WAAC) in 1942. She was graduated with the first class of women officer-candidates, one of the oldest of her group, rose rapidly. Her associates say that she is motherly, sympathetic, popular, call her "Mummie...