Word: spinsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jehovah unsuccessfully offers to an aristocratic Manhattan spinster the honor of giving virgin birth to another Messiah...
...Christie, The Late Christopher Bean). As a poor goodwife in a decrepit shack, her activities include mothering five moppets, hoping her husband (Donald Meek) will return from the Klondike with gold, accepting charity from a rich girl and the rich girl's suitor. Mrs. Wiggs befriends a fluttery spinster (ZaSu Pitts) whom she aids in acquiring a husband (W. C. Fields) from a matrimonial agency. Mrs. Wiggs's second son dies and she nearly loses her shack. But she smiles through her tears and in the midst of adversity utters earthy, comforting aphorisms...
Heartening to most campuses, the news was of small moment to five elderly, aristocratic spinster sisters in the East. At the top of their class, the sisters-Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Vassar and Wellesley-have had no trouble keeping at or very near their top limits of enrollment. Depression has not bothered them financially. They have long complained about the fact that their endowments average only one-tenth those of their men's-college equivalents.. But what they had in 1929, invested ultra-conservatively, they have kept. No faculty salaries have been cut, no instructors dismissed...
...sake, the Captain reduces Brother Matthew to a state of misery by destroying his faith in God and man. He ferrets out Nephew Romney's deep tangled secrets, laying him bare and vulnerable, enjoys exposing the boy to a crass prostitute. Weasel-like, soft-footed, he discovers that his spinster sister's love letters are written by and to herself. He relishes the joke, pretends to sympathize, but uses the knowledge to get money out of her. Even the servants are not exempt from his influence...
...Amherst, Mass., the Pomona Grange held a husband-calling contest. When the judges had awarded the prizes they found that Spinster Thelma Glazier had taken second place...