Word: spinsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...airmail. On its regular Washington-Detroit mail & passenger run Central Airlines put as co-pilot Helen Richey of Pittsburgh, co-holder (with the late Mrs. Frances Harrell Marsalis) of the world's refueling endurance flight record for women (9 days 21 hr. 42 min.). Spinster Richey, 25, carried seven passengers, a big load of mail & express, on her first transport flight...
...they waited, enduring their enforced semicolon, gradually revealing to each other the meaning of their unfinished sentences. Julian was a bachelor, suave, middleaged; John, a talented young artist, was his son, though unaware of the fact. They amused themselves by observing their fellow travellers: a Jewish salesman, a secretarial spinster, an amiable widow, two girl chums, a pair of honeymooners. One by one their travelling disguises were discarded. The spinster, frantically trying to catch a boat at Corunna, because she had never yet failed her egomaniac boss, attempted to walk it, was brought back with sunstroke and a change...
Anne Morgan, president of the American Woman's Association, and stately spinster sister of J. Pierpont Morgan, advised fellow Manhattan social workers : I do not believe the feminist principle is our solution. I am a frantic believer in women's solidarity, and by that I do not mean at all an anti-man stand, but rather the development of the capacity to stand and work together. . . . I am not a feminist...
...Brooklyn, N. Y. one day last month Death rounded out 18 years of solitude in her two-story house for 79-year-old Spinster Louisa Herle. When her safe yielded but a paltry $100,000, relatives immediately began a search of the house. On the top floor they found not a cent. Under mouldering linoleum in the kitchen they got $4,300. In the two basement rooms which Spinster Herle used they found tucked away bank books showing deposits of $37,000. Behind a wall leading to the cellar they found a nest of tobacco tins crammed with...
...longing to go home. Those who are not physically prevented find other barriers in their way. Heroine of her tale is a young girl, Victoria, who has cast off her family and country to find "something" abroad. In Paris, nearly on her uppers, she is befriended by two Russian spinster sisters, who introduce her to a simple-life colony presided over by one Sorrel, gentle U. S. fanatic. Victoria, who takes things as they come, soon makes a place for herself in Sorrel's crazy circus, keeps clear of bickering and intrigues, treats aging Pundit Sorrel like an understanding...