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After his death, his energetic spinster daughter Helen became an art patron in her own right. Under her father's will, the Frick home was turned into a public gallery. Next door, she established the Frick Art Reference Library, now one of the largest collections of art photographs, pamphlets and books in the world...
...Canton, Ohio, a man phoned the census office to correct the income figure he had given when interviewed at home, explained that he did not want his wife to know exactly how much he made. In St. Louis, the census director agreed to mail out forms to three spinster sisters who feared that the neighbors would talk if a male counter entered their home...
...young things" in popular novels (e.g., Rose Kramer in Ruth Suckow's Kramer Girls'), but they invariably escaped their fate by marrying or becoming secretaries before it was too late. The rest were like Thomas Wolfe's teacher in Look Homeward, Angel ("a gaunt red-faced spinster, with fierce glaring eyes"), or like Sherwood Anderson's frustrated Kate Swift, "silent, cold, and stern...
Died. Alice Stone Blackwell, 92, pioneer suffragette, daughter of Bloomer Girl Lucy Stone and Abolitionist Henry B. Blackwell; in Cambridge, Mass. Spinster Blackwell once remarked, after women had been voting for 25 years: "Women's suffrage hasn't done all the good we intended it should [but] neither has it done the harm its opponents predicted...
Then Attlee dwelt sarcastically on Churchill's alternate use of scorn and entreaty to win the nine-seat Liberal bloc to the Tory side. "He has been a very ardent lover of this elderly spinster, the Liberal Party," he said, and the House tittered. Lady Megan Lloyd George, 47-year-old Liberal spinster, blushed and laughed with embarrassment. Other M.P.s, with mock gallantry, cried: "Withdraw!" But Attlee went right on. "I can never make out," he said, "whether the Right Honorable Member for Woodford [Churchill's constituency] is going to play Petruchio or Romeo. He gives...