Word: spinsters
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...year-old spinster (she was born lacking a sense of taste or smell; became deaf in childhood) first saw "the dim shore" of her destination as "a long line of the New Jersey coast, with distinguishable trees and white houses." "I was taken by surprise," she wrote, "by my own emotions. All that I had heard of the Pilgrim Fathers, of the old colonial days, of the great men of the Revolution, and of the busy, prosperous succeeding days stirred up my mind...
Those who saw Cora Hind on her tours through the wheat never forgot her. A sturdy, schoolmarmish spinster, she wore high leather boots, a cowgirl skirt, flat-crowned sombrero, and a beaded buckskin coat which hung to her knees. This getup was discarded in her later years in favor of ill-fitting riding breeches, shirt and high boots. She carried rubber hip boots in case of rain...
...have combined with the meticulous producing of Dwight Decre Wiman and the flawless acting of Flora Robson and the unusually good supporting cast to make a production that is an exercise in technical excellence. Miss Robson, displaying again her complete mastery of her art, is perfect as the English spinster; she is so good that even Jane Austen would probably approve of her. Margaret Dougless is outstanding as an overbearing matron, and Celeste Holm is very good as a breezy actress. Definite ornaments to the cast are a handsome and promising juvenile, Peter Fernandez, and a delightful young lady named...
...sell because her father told her not to. Besides, she was once secretly married to Brent-just long enough to collect a badly needed inheritance from her Aunt Sophronia and to bear Brent a child. Says Sister Fitzgerald when this truth comes out: "Oh, my darling spinster, how you've been...
Mother's Day, first nationally proclaimed by President Woodrow Wilson in 1914 at the behest of an eccentric Philadelphia spinster, Anna Jarvis, and since proclaimed by successive U.S. presidents (who without exception have loved their mothers) has long since become Big Business for florists, greeting-card makers, candy makers, telegraph companies...