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...sake, the Captain reduces Brother Matthew to a state of misery by destroying his faith in God and man. He ferrets out Nephew Romney's deep tangled secrets, laying him bare and vulnerable, enjoys exposing the boy to a crass prostitute. Weasel-like, soft-footed, he discovers that his spinster sister's love letters are written by and to herself. He relishes the joke, pretends to sympathize, but uses the knowledge to get money out of her. Even the servants are not exempt from his influence...
...Amherst, Mass., the Pomona Grange held a husband-calling contest. When the judges had awarded the prizes they found that Spinster Thelma Glazier had taken second place...
When Manhattan's eccentric spinster Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel died in 1931, she left to five charitable institutions the bulk of the $36,000,000 fortune which old John Gottlieb Wendel had founded in the fur trade and grounded in Manhattan. To small Drew University of Madison, N. J. fell the lamed Wendel mansion on 39th Street and Fifth Avenue, with a high-fenced side yard which was maintained exclusively for Spinster Wendel's toothless, asthmatic poodle Tobey. Last week it was learned that Drew University had leased the site of the Wendel mansion for a long term...
...deliver a baby. After birth the baby was stowed away in the house attic for several weeks, later smuggled out of the house, given to a family named Morris. The father of the baby, the affidavits alleged, was John G. Wendel; its mother John G. Wendel's spinster sister, Mary...
...Author, young (28), Manhattan-born, went to an Ethical Culture school, Swarthmore College and the Columbia School of Journalism, then did publicity work and odd jobs on Manhattan newspapers. She has traveled widely in Europe, is still a spinster. At present she is teaching something called "creative writing" at a girls' school (Briarcliff Manor...