Word: spinsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Less substantial but funnier, Daughters and Sons varies the conventional family novel by concentrating three squabbling generations under one roof. The Ponsonbys consist of a hard-bitten old grandmother, her bludgeoning spinster daughter, her son (a popular author on the down grade), his five children. Isolated in a big country house, the Ponsonby children while away their leisure making dirty cracks about each other, unite in making dirty cracks about their grandmother, who repays them with interest. All hands join in deviling the succession of governesses. For awhile it looks as though they have met their match when one ruthlessly...
...SINGLE HOUND-May Sarton- Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Plaintive first novel by a 26-year-old poetess, in which an aging spinster in a Belgian garden brings peace to a tormented young Englishman, emotionally ravaged by an affair with a married woman...
...summer of 1911, a frail, 50-year-old spinster named Harriet Monroe began knocking on the doors of wealthy Chicagoans, trying to get 100 of them to pledge $50 annually for the support of a magazine of modern verse. Charles Deering, Samuel Insull, Cyrus McCormick, Charles & Rufus Dawes came in; Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck stayed out. By June, 1912, she had more than 100 signatures on her five-year pledges, an income of more than $5,200 a year for her magazine...
Actress Julie Haydon plays radiantly as the simple-hearted slavey, makes the Canon's conversion entirely credible. Chief among the excellent supporting cast is Sara Allgood. Her plump, pious spinster was so richly comic that first-nighters chortled at her every gesture...
...usual, the B. B. C. was putting its official glaze over the facts, for everyone at the London Palladium saw and heard King George roaring and Queen Elizabeth laughing till the tears came at the way Cicely Courtneidge burlesqued a "larky spinster," at Gracie Fields scratching herself as an itching mill girl and at Jack La Vier hopelessly entangling himself in a trapeze after he had announced, "Now I'll show you just how far insanity has advanced...