Word: spinsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hopes of nearly 1,800 claimants to share in the $30,000,000 estate of the late Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel, eccentric Manhattan spinster (TIME, April 6, 1931 et ante) went glimmering when Surrogate James A. Foley took steps to strike from the list all but 27 who claim fifth-degree (or closer) relationship. Of these 27 the fifth-degree relationship of nine has been conceded by the estate. Five of the nine sold their interests to 14 charitable institutions named as beneficiaries in the will for $7,500. cash down, $17,500 more if the will is broken...
...Consent (RKO) is a serious cinema of college love. Richard Cromwell quarrels with his sweetheart, Dorothy Wilson, later apologizes and is forgiven, proposes marriage. She tells him to finish his remaining two years in college. After a spinster teacher tells her how she once was similarly magnanimous, Dorothy changes her mind, telephones Richard. But he is compromising himself with a waitress, Arlene Judge, who presently gets her father and demands marriage. Dorothy Wilson consoles herself by a ride in the snappy car of Eric Linden, a smart-cracking admirer. They turn over, Linden is mortally injured. Dorothy Wilson...
Died- Leonore Cawker, 58, Milwaukee's famed dogcatcher, vice president of American Humane Society; in Milwaukee. A rich spinster, she spent her life and fortune in succoring stray animals, was appointed official dog-catcher in 1915 at $500 annual salary, next year obtained a raise to $1.200. Her best publicized act was saving the fire department's horses .from being killed for fox farm food when the department was motorized. Died. Edward Everett Eslick, 60, Congressman from the ;th Tennessee District; instantly, of heart disease while addressing the House in behalf of the Bonus; in Washington...
...advertising columns of New York newspapers is one reason why Macy's sold $99,000,000 worth of goods in 1930. Dating from 1927, this particular brand of chatter helped revolutionize that vast peculiar world known as the department store business. Its heroine is a chic, young spinster named Margaret ("Marne") Fishback who last week celebrated the fifth anniversary of her Macy employment by publishing a book of poems...
...ALMOND TREE-Grace Zaring Stone-Bobbs-Merrttl ($2.50).* When middle-aged but still lovely Leda, newly widowed & impoverished, brought her only daughter Marise back to the U. S. to try to live economically, she thought she had nothing to look forward to. Her formidable spinster sister, a little-seen portent in Washington society, took them in with unenthusiastic, sisterly hospitality. Marise was 16, knew nothing about her native country, was pleasingly thrilled when she got a job in an interior decorator's office. Leda made no move to look up old friends; sat in the house...