Word: spinsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture: a picture thief (Conrad Veidt), his accomplice (Hugh Williams), a cinemactress (Esther Ralston), a businessman eloping with his partner's wife (Joan Barry), a fuzzy British tourist with a regurgitative chuckle (Gordon Harker), a U. S. millionaire traveling with his secretary, a chief of police, a nervous spinster. The picture thief's accomplice renews an old romance with the cinemactress while the picture thief is murdering a timid little rascal for stealing a Van Dyck which, through a confusion of briefcases, finds its way into the compartment of the U. S. millionaire. The businessman is suspected...
Last week, with Librarian Charles Knowles Bolton, 65, retiring after 35 years at the Athenaeum, every one thought it perfectly suitable that Miss Elinor Gregory should get the job. An erudite, quick-smiling, pleasant-voiced spinster, she had been Librarian Bolton's chief assistant for a decade, had lately been practically running the place. Said she: "Of course, the Athenaeum will remain exactly as it is." Also last week. Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams was re-elected president of the Athenaeum, having served for a year...
Nine years ago, an energetic, middle-aged spinster who had fought the good fight for women's votes, who was a lieutenant in an ambulance unit but did not get to France, who was a good friend and committee-mate of many of Manhattan's ablest socialites, took up the profession of helping other women make money. Daughter of a well-to-do Kentucky family, since girlhood she had speculated in the stockmarket, at the height of the boom was said to have piled up $6,000,000 profits. As an investment adviser, well-recommended by many...
Died. Elisabeth Marbury, 76, New York Democratic National Committee- woman, playwright's agent, author (My Crystal Ball); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A spinster suffraget. she once retorted to the Lucy Stone League: "I've been trying hard for 50 years to change my name without success." She was an anti-Prohibitionist ("all wet"), good friend & backer since 1918 of Alfred Emanuel Smith...
...willing spinster, Ann always wanted to get married but could not find the right man, began to think she never would. In a weak moment she married a likable fellow-charitarian, quickly discovered that he was a windy fake. But she tried to keep things patched up till one evening she met the Right Man: Judge Barney Dolphin, able but not too scrupulous Manhattan jurist, with a Broadway reputation and a wife of his own. They fell in love immediately, and Ann let nothing make any difference. She bore Barney's child, divorced her husband, stood...