Word: spinsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because the biennial festival is Cincinnati's big social turnout, no one was busier last week than Marion Devereux, the chirping, bright-eyed little spinster who writes the society reams for the Cincinnati Enquirer (TIME, May 8, 1933). Marion Devereux is a dictator in her own small sphere. She tells Cincinnati matrons when to give their parties. As a reporter, she is rarely seen taking notes but no detail escapes her. The Enquirer ran 29½ columns of society news on the festival last week. Mr. Benjamin W. Lamson "deserted his own box party to enjoy Miss Ferguson...
KEEP AWAY FROM WATER! - Alice Campbell-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). A rich spinster seeks unsuccessfully to escape threatened murder. Serialized in the New York Daily News...
...nourishing diet, made him take unaccustomed exercise. Stephen had a horror feminae ever since an impassioned girl had bitten his ear in broad daylight in a Florentine cafe, but he nearly fell an unwilling prey to a legacy-stalking female. Hilary was too settled a spinster to change her ways...
...give sentiment and magic a freer hand, Author Williamson puts his tale in rural Germany. Fraulein Emma, a middle-aged spinster, lives alone in her isolated cottage, with her canary, cat and dog. Years ago her Lover Josef left her practically at the altar; her whole life has become one mnemonic system to keep his memory green and rankling. One stormy night the canary gets out of its cage and, terrified by the cat, escapes into the woods. Fraulein Emma searches in vain, finds instead a lovely young girl, Liesl, whom she brings home with her. Liesl cannot stand...
...busy dissipating his property over the gaming tables at Saratoga. By 1898 "Tall Trees" has fallen into the hands of the Howlands, represented by a scatter-brained Gibson Girl whose husband has gone off to die in the Spanish War. The year 1920 sees crabbed old Carrie Howland, spinster sister-in-law of the Gibson Girl, trying to hold on to the place while her reckless brother dabbles in painting and ill-advised speculation. Then Mrs. Joseph Kelly gets "Tall Trees" out of profits from chewing gum, settles there with a corrupt political boss. The Crash gives the estate...