Word: spinsters
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...With the One Coin for Fee two aging women, girlhood friends, meet after many years as 1938's New England hurricane blows up. One is at the end of a sexually avid and shameless career; the other is a spinster who jealously despises her. They die in the hurricane, reconciled...
Minnie was finally located in Crowborough, Sussex by the London Daily Telegraph & Morning Post. She proved to be a grey-haired spinster who recently taught in the Social Science Department of the London School of Economics. According to the Telegraph, Minnie some 25 years ago published privately in aid of an Indian charity a book of verses called The Desert, and the lines quoted by His Majesty are in her verse God Knows. After further inquiring, the BBC challenged the Telegraph's, God Knows theory, went on the air with an announcement that the lines occur...
Before she took up squash, Spinster Sears was a topflight tennis player, won the national doubles title four times (with...
...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...
...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...