Word: spinsters
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...misanthropic points ("I used to think a dowry was where you got milk-until I got married. I got milked plenty then"). He can affect poor hearing if it will make a gag go: once he pretended to think a woman described herself as a "monster" instead of a "spinster" ("Oh well," he said, winding up the whole discussion, "there isn't a great deal of difference...
...Heiress. The story of a spinster's revenge on her father and lover, sumptuously told by Producer-Director William Wyler; with Olivia de Havilland (TIME...
...nearly 14 years, Scoopy, a tiger-striped torn, had made his home and office in an In box on the desk of Publisher Isabel Bryan, a seventyish spinster, in the cluttered basement office of the Villager. Scoopy's byline and photograph had graced a widely read column of jottings and musings ("Scoopy Mewses") on the editorial page. Artists painted Scoopy's portrait, photographers snapped him, the Christian Science Monitor sang his praises...
...fortune. After earning some $150,000 in vaudeville (hardly any of which she kept), Gertrude Ederle is now a 42-year-old spinster living in Queens...
...blame Harvard indifference; the whole thing is geographic. Fecundity increases in a westerly direction, and the fertile crescent appears to be the Rocky Mountain-Pacific area. Naturally coeducational schools are more prolific than bachelor or spinster academics...