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Word: spinsters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before she took up squash, Spinster Sears was a topflight tennis player, won the national doubles title four times (with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Grand Old Girl | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...made ready to resume at the Sorbonne his course in rhythmocatechism. Its title: Les Rhytlimes Formulaires de I'Apocalypse d'Ezdras et le Style Oral Palestinien. Père Jousse's first enrolée was his good friend and collaborator, a tiny, wrinkled, white-haired spinster, by name Mile Gabrielle Desgrées du Lou. This lady, who must enroll as a student in order to get in the Sorbonne," does Père Jousse's gestures for him on the platform. While chanting, for example, Jesus' parable of the houses built on sand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Rhythmocatechist | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...GOLDEN SWAN MURDER-Dorothy Cameron Disney-Random House ($2). Summoned hysterically to Hollywood by her glamor-girl niece, testy spinster Susan Page of Philadelphia finds the G. G.'s ex-husband murdered in a fancy gilded bed. Susan's spinster intuition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in October | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Mabel Thorp Boardman had come back from Berlin, where her uncle was U. S. Minister. Unmarried, she was no longer a Victorian young lady but a Victorian spinster. The Red Cross job was just what she wanted. Imaginative, energetic, with a passion for detail, she got to work with a will. Fifteen years later she was national secretary, has kept the job ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Hungry and Naked | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...urchins with Left Bank literary tastes were in a great dither last week. Bang on top of promises of children's books from two super-highbrows, Spinster Gertrude Stein* and childless Thomas Stearns Eliot†, Expatriate Kay Boyle (three children), noted for her selfconsciously brilliant short stories, published her first fairy tale, The Youngest Camel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Golden Hoofs & Ice Cream | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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