Word: spinsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...learned canon, Cedric Hardwicke acted with strength, irony, and restraint. Julie Haydon, playing Brigid, was naive and simple in a part which in less skilled hands might verge on Baby Snooks. And although Lloyd Gough overplayed the rebel pedagogue, Sara Allgood, uproariously funny as Miss Jemima Cooney, (a local spinster), and a superb cast more than made...
...wafted their feather-like way through his brain, his gaze drifted around the many walls which encircle his new penthouse cubicle. Before him the desk, the calendar, the typewriter. Well enough; they had been so in the past. And there was the Falstaffian old leather Morris chair with its spinster companion, the ever slightly drunken bridge lamp, leaning confidentially over its shoulder--looking the same as ever. But will the old combination still breed the same pleasant spawn of thoughts, the Vagabond wondered? Could they still whisper the same mental innuendoes of Donne when he thought of English...
...Resources Committee used figures compiled from a nationwide sampling by WPA through the bureaus of Home Economics and Labor Statistics. Between July 1935 and July 1936, some 300,000 families in 30 States (66 farm counties, 140 villages and 51 cities) were questioned. Correlated by a small, hard-working spinster named Dr. Hildegarde Kneeland, who was once a home economics teacher at the University of Missouri, has been with the National Resources Committee since 1935, results of the survey appeared last week in a slick, terse, 104-page brochure much of which made astonishing reading...
Helen ("Piddle") and Cornelia ("Tobe") Storm, believed oldest spinster twins in the East, descendants (7th generation) of Dutch Immigrant Dirck Storm (1653), gave their 84th birthday party at Fishkill, N. Y. To their 50-odd guests the sisters proudly displayed a letter of congratulations sent by Dutch-descended Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Anna Jarvis is the 60-year-old Philadelphia spinster who invented Mother's Day. Whenever she thinks of what the flower shops, the candy stores, the telegraph companies have done with her idea, she is disgusted. She has even incorporated Mother's Day to help keep unscrupulous florists and confectioners from using her patented trademark for commercial purposes. But "nobody," she says, "pays any attention to law any more...