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...Brooklyn, N. Y. one day last month Death rounded out 18 years of solitude in her two-story house for 79-year-old Spinster Louisa Herle. When her safe yielded but a paltry $100,000, relatives immediately began a search of the house. On the top floor they found not a cent. Under mouldering linoleum in the kitchen they got $4,300. In the two basement rooms which Spinster Herle used they found tucked away bank books showing deposits of $37,000. Behind a wall leading to the cellar they found a nest of tobacco tins crammed with...
...longing to go home. Those who are not physically prevented find other barriers in their way. Heroine of her tale is a young girl, Victoria, who has cast off her family and country to find "something" abroad. In Paris, nearly on her uppers, she is befriended by two Russian spinster sisters, who introduce her to a simple-life colony presided over by one Sorrel, gentle U. S. fanatic. Victoria, who takes things as they come, soon makes a place for herself in Sorrel's crazy circus, keeps clear of bickering and intrigues, treats aging Pundit Sorrel like an understanding...
...Jehovah unsuccessfully offers to an aristocratic Manhattan spinster the honor of giving virgin birth to another Messiah...
...Christie, The Late Christopher Bean). As a poor goodwife in a decrepit shack, her activities include mothering five moppets, hoping her husband (Donald Meek) will return from the Klondike with gold, accepting charity from a rich girl and the rich girl's suitor. Mrs. Wiggs befriends a fluttery spinster (ZaSu Pitts) whom she aids in acquiring a husband (W. C. Fields) from a matrimonial agency. Mrs. Wiggs's second son dies and she nearly loses her shack. But she smiles through her tears and in the midst of adversity utters earthy, comforting aphorisms...
Heartening to most campuses, the news was of small moment to five elderly, aristocratic spinster sisters in the East. At the top of their class, the sisters-Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Vassar and Wellesley-have had no trouble keeping at or very near their top limits of enrollment. Depression has not bothered them financially. They have long complained about the fact that their endowments average only one-tenth those of their men's-college equivalents.. But what they had in 1929, invested ultra-conservatively, they have kept. No faculty salaries have been cut, no instructors dismissed...