Word: spinsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...false beard, drawls genially and devoutly, becomes a skinny, saintly Yankee sage. He delivers a little sermon, pointed up with earthy rural witticisms. Leading members of his cast of ten singer-actors are "Ma" Parker, Capt. Bang (famed for his rendition of "Crossing the Bar"). Lizzie Peters, a comic spinster (played by Mrs. Sophia Mecorney Lord, mother of two), and Cefus, Lizzie's half-witted brother. To the accompaniment of an antique melodeon, Seth and his neighbors sing hymns. Titles suggest the neighborly, revivalistic tone: "You Go To Your Church and I'll Go To Mine" (a prime...
...story jumps back to 1700, shows the original Orrange Oakes building the house, living in it in ancestral splendor. Then you skip to 1890. Judith Oakes, last of her clan, is an embittered spinster, mistress of a decrepit estate. The old settlers are vanishing, the Poles are coming in. When Judith discovers that her niece has married the Polack hired man she dies of a stroke. When Death comes for his parents, Orrange Olszak struggles on with the farm. The story comes down to the present again. The Baldwins have arrived at just the right time : Orrange was beginning...
...purported next-of-kin to the late Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel, the bulk of whose estate (esti mated $50,000,000 to $75,000,000) was left to charity (TIME, March 23 et seq.). On behalf of the claimant, one Rosa Dew Stansbury, small, 74-year-old spinster of Vicksburg, Miss., they sought to have set aside a waiver which she had signed for $1,000 without benefit of counsel; the fight began when Lawyer Hays obtained a temporary injunction restraining the estate from using the waiver. Predictable Miss minimum fee of the three lawyers if Miss Stansbury collects...
Anita Colombo is everything that a Latin feels a woman should not be. Instead of being a voluptuous ornament to couch and fireside, mother of many, she is a spinster, an energetic, athletic, "emancipated" woman. Half-German, Jewish, she has a mop of un-waved blonde hair, a keen, sculptured face which powder & lipstick never have touched. Born in Milan some 35 years ago, she wanted first to be a tomboy. When Italy entered the World War she hurried off to the front, did Red Cross work, behaved (for a woman) preposterously: for gallant conduct she won the Bronze Medal...
Sour and furtive Spinster Ella Lining suspected the relationship between Eleanor Steel and Mary Hewson; nobody else did. But Spinster Lining was right...