Word: spinsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gold rings for some 250 lire each ($20) to drop into the urns while they hide away their own golden treasures and wear the ugly iron of patriotism. Eight years ago at the watering place of Agnano, the present Emperor of Ethiopia gave a gold ring to his spinster bath attendant. Adele Chierchia, saying, "Let this be your wedding ring when you marry." Still a spinster and still a bathwoman, Adele dropped Haile Selassie's ring last week into one of Benito Mussolini's urns...
...best U. S. woman's orchestra owes its existence to Lillian Poenisch, a fiery little spinster who plays the clarinet; Adeline Schmidt, a white-haired flutist; and Lois Bichl, a cellist noted for her great good-nature. These three wanted to play in an orchestra but knew they stood little chance of being admitted to an established symphony organization. To start a band of their own they collected $1,000 from Samuel Insull, an equal amount from the late Julius Rosenwald, persuaded Richard Czerwonky of Bush Conservatory to be their first conductor...
...read of the exploits of an Obstetrician who terms himself "Love's Whitewing, or the D. S. C. of the tender passions," or of the horrible torture Mr. Clippey underwent in his frustrated efforts to "wash his hands," or of the sad plight of "a spinster named Gretel, who wore underclothes made of metal," or chuckle over Mr. Nash's delicate eulogy to a privy. But personally we enjoyed most a little song by Odgen Nash entitled "Quartet For The Sidewalks of New York" from which we quote a stanza...
Half vexed, half amused was old Dr. Warriner when the Law and LeTourneau's family promptly uprose to challenge his bold confession. In North Brookfield the dead man's two spinster daughters, aged 54 and 52, declared that their father had died of loss of blood, that he had been attended not by Dr. Warriner but by the Army man whom he had mentioned as his consultant. In Worcester, undeterred by the impossibility of producing a corpus delicti, a district attorney sped a State detective to North Brookfield to investigate the 48-year-old death. The detective shortly...
...master's degree at Columbia, did skin & cancer research in St. Louis, taught botany there, experimented for a time at the Boyce Thompson Institute, is now a government cotton technologist. Dr. Sophia H. Eckerson got her Ph. D. at University of Chicago, is a learned, shy spinster not far from 60. has been at Boyce Thompson for 14 years, is known to colleagues male & female as a clever and learned worker with plants...