Word: spinsters
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...striking contrast to Denmark's gallant treatment of marrying Madam Minister Owen, pious Colombians made suave, energetic Spinster Guillen's life miserable after she ventured to deny officially that her Government persecuted the Catholic Church. Too late a Colombian newspaper editor reminded his churlish readers: "Señorita Guillen has said many nice things about Colombia and refused higher posts in the U. S. and Europe because she preferred Colombia...
...great-aunt was appointed West Point postmistress by President Polk, served for 49 years. Her mother was born at West Point. Her father, Lieut. Henry Moore Harrington, graduated from the Academy in 1872, was killed with General George Armstrong Custer at the Little Big Horn. For kindly, plain-faced Spinster Grace Aileen Harrington this distinguished ancestry brought its reward: appointment as West Point postmistress...
...want to make you spinster-conscious, please...
...When a spinster reaches the age of 55 something ought to be done for her!", postulated Hattie, Lady Fisher-Smith as she led through London last week 5,000 banner-waving British spinsters singing such songs...
...colleges he has such companions as Smith's witty Scottish William Allan Neilson and Vassar's Henry Noble MacCracken. But Roswell Ham will be the first head man at Mount Holyoke, a jealously feminine citadel since it was founded in 1837 as a ladies' seminary by Spinster Mary Lyon...