Word: spinsterish
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...Portland, so-called Spinster City of the West, the Oregon Journal last week handled the year's hottest story with spinsterish restraint. While witness after witness testified, before a U.S. Senate committee that Teamsters' Union bosses had plotted with city officials to monopolize Portland's rackets, the Journal (circ. 181,489) primly avoided editorial comment. Though the Journal gave wire-service reports of the hearings heavy play in its news columns, it-made no attempt to report local evidence of Teamster-racketeer relations. Reason: since its opposition daily, S.I. Newhouse's Oregonian (circ. 230,850), first...
Almost alone among U.S. companies of its size, American Express is still an unincorporated association (though all foreign operations are handled by a wholly owned incorporated subsidiary). Since stockholders are thus technically liable for its debts, the company has always handled its investments with spinsterish conservatism: all but 6% of the millions in its kitty (Jan. 1, 1955 total: $460 million) is invested in gilt-edged securities and bonds. American Express earned only .16% on its $3.4 billion worth of banking and travel business in 1955. But investment income hiked the net to $5,400,000. Dividends have risen steadily...
...company's Modern English wing, was on hand last week to dance the part of Hagar's beloved. ¶ Lucia Chase, late-fortyish, Ballet Theater's longtime wealthy angel and firm guiding hand, was on her toes again in a ceremonial appearance as Hagar's spinsterish elder sister. ¶ Guest Ballerina Alicia Markova, 44, who has been a star ever since the days when a ballerina without a Russian name was no ballerina at all (she was born Alicia Marks, in London). A veteran of Sadler's Wells and of Ballet Theater itself, Ballerina Markova...
...accepts an invitation to address (without fee) an organization such as a conference of Y.W.C.A. secretaries: After he has described the nature and purpose of his study, he calls for volunteers to sign up for interviews. He often gets a response as high as 80% even from a prim, spinsterish group...
...York, Novelist Edgar Saltus and Playwright Clyde Fitch were turning out popular confections. Saltus believed that only three qualities mattered in fiction: "Style, style polished and style repolished." Fitch was a chameleon "who changed his color with the feminine tastes of the time." In Philadelphia, Agnes Repplier tatted spinsterish essays on tea and cats. Down South, Lafcadio Hearn haunted the French quarter of New Orleans, looking for the exotic...