Word: spinsterish
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...seem reminiscent even when they are sprightly; the lyrics have an arid cleverness. And though George Balanchine is a superb "serious" choreographer, his dances here suggest a few bright ideas plus a farewell wave of the hand. Joe E. Brown is droll and likable; and with a stylish, skittish-spinsterish ditty called Golden Moment, Carmen Mathews stops the show...
...fiery Thomas Reed Powell, 70, once Harvard Law School's top expert on the U.S. Constitution; genial, snow-haired Arnold Lucius Gesell, 70, pertinacious chronicler of child behavior (Infant and Child in the Culture of Today, etc.), former director of Yale's Clinic of Child Development; shy, spinsterish Cornelia Meigs, 65, biographer of Louisa May Alcott (Invincible Louisa) and professor of English composition at Bryn Mawr; Columbia Mathematician Edward Kasner (Mathematics and the Imagination), one of the world's top geometers...
...ships disappeared from the river. Only the Day Line, "the Albany night boat," and a few others lingered on. The day boats maintained an air of spinsterish respectability. The night boat took on a raffish tilt. It became the favorite vehicle of newlyweds and not-yet-weds, of petty coggers and straw-hatted drummers. Later, vacationists bound for the Adirondacks still patronized it, grateful that they could stow their cars in its hold and their young in its berths...
...strike wore on, urchins and a few old men & women prowled through the mounting piles of rubbish, patiently searching for scrap paper, cloth, bits of metal and cigarette butts. Cats & dogs dropped in for tidbits. Not far from the Pantheon, the traditional rendezvous of Roman cats, a spinsterish old woman called pleadingly to her bloated black & white cat, which feasted from a rubbish heap. In a nearby cafe, brawny comrades jeered. The old woman turned on them: "If the poor thing dies from indigestion, you will be to blame, you rebels...
...Hall today the College will conclude the major part of its preliminary activity for what is to be the last regular Summer Session--for some years at least. Hereafter the June to September ratrace will revert to its pre-war form in which it was chiefly an opportunity for spinsterish school marms to sip a few heady draughts from a traditionally masculine fountain of knowledge...