Word: spinsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favorite story of Julia Kippen Jaffray's concerns a friend who sent her rayon dress to the cleaners and got back only buttons. The dress turned to jelly. Julia Jaffray is a Canadian-born spinster of some 50 years who has made a name for herself in prison reform as secretary of the National Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor. Miss Jaffray is also much interested in women's club work and for the past year or two she has been the spearhead of a women's club drive which last week had the rayon industry seething...
Last summer this old fortress of personal good works turned with the times as its directors chose to succeed Founder Addams as head-resident an efficient, practised public charitarian. She was Charlotte Carr, executive director of New York City's Emergency Relief Bureau. A tall, hefty, genial spinster who studied at Vassar before the War, Miss Carr left her job as employment manager of Knox Hat Co. in 1923 and soon became acting director of the New York Labor Department's Division of Women in Industry under Frances Perkins. After that she served as director of Pennsylvania...
...village character in Salisbury, Md. is seventyish Spinster Mary H. Parsons who was left a substantial estate by her father, Levin Parsons, and who spends her time with one eye on her knitting, the other on stock market reports. Owning a row of brick tenements, farm lands, and a batch of securities. Miss Parsons insists on living in one half of a frame duplex house without electricity or bathtub, wears cotton hose and gingham dresses, likes to haggle with grocers over not quite fresh foods. As kindly as she is money-conscious, she has been known to spend several hundred...
...ever said, exactly. But questions beat fretfully on the mind of one citizen, Spinster Maria Smith, 74, a retired teacher and the only woman on Saugus' School Board. Last week Miss Smith could stand it no longer. At a School Board meeting she persuaded two of her four male colleagues to vote with her that Teacher Hallin's contract should not be renewed next year...
...would have none of him. "I've gotten a lot of bunnies on Easter," she retorted in her throatiest, breast-heaving contralto, "but this is the first time I've ever received a husband. I've never heard of the fellow. I'm a spinster and I'm not 42. I was practically a child in 1911 and I never was in Milwaukee until four years ago. They'll have me married to triplets next! Let this alleged Mr. Mae West c'm' up and see my lawyer sometime and prove...