Word: spinsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Companion Toklas: "I am going to write it as simply as Defoe did the autobiography of Robinson Crusoe. And she has and this is it." In Robinson Crusoe Defoe does not appear, but in Alice B. Toklas Gertrude Stein is nearly the whole show. When Miss Toklas, unattached spinster with artistic leanings, met Gertrude Stein in Paris (1907) she immediately recognized a genius. "I may say that only three times in my life have I met a genius and each time a bell within me rang and I was not mistaken. . . ." (Other bell-ringers: Painter Pablo Picasso, Philosopher Alfred North...
...best. An unrepining spinster, at 39 she finds plenty to do; besides her writing she takes an active interest in the Little Theatre movement, in the formation of women's lunch clubs, is in demand as a lecturer (she will lecture in the U. S. next January'), likes walking, badminton, tennis. Other books: The World's Bane, Cat-in-the Manger, The Spinner of the Years, The Partnership, Trio...
...ALBUM-Mary Roberts Rinehart -Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Murder in a sequestered group-and a prying spinster finds romance while solving the crime...
Cincinnati is one of those rare cities in which a society editor is the social tsarina -Marion Devereux, a spry, birdlike, fiftyish spinster who inherited from her mother the society editorship of the polite. McLean-owned Enquirer* No party is held without her consultation months in advance as to date. An event scheduled against her advice is doomed to obscurity. Mothers and daughters may object to her domination, but not in her presence. For Editrix Devereux has at her command such social barbs as "She appeared encased in that striking green dress which has graced so many previous occasions." Last...
Virginia, English spinster and university graduate, had a great idea. She would adopt a newborn orangutan, bring him up like a human child, make him gradually over into a human being. She got the orangutan, called him Appius, removed herself and him to an isolated cottage where for ten years she carried out her great experiment. Mother, servant and teacher all in one, Virginia brought up Appius with firmness and faith in the way well-behaved little boys should go. Up to a certain point things went well. Appius walked erect, called Virginia "Mama," spoke out his simple ideas...