Word: spinster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hero becomes governor of an island and defies any one to take from him the woman he loves. Nobody tries. The curtain falls. The Steam Roller rolls blunderingly through three acts in the form or an inexpertly written part for Janet Beecher. Miss Beecher plays an imperious and exhausting spinster whose lover went away to China years ago. In point of fact, his affections remained at home with her sister, an item which the audience learns on his return in the first act. For the rest of the evening, he drums up courage to beard the spinster lion and does...
...noble-frank esteem for the 'Herr Professor,' veneration for intellectual, spiritual labor, respect and love for learning." Heidelberg today. "Students are nowhere to be seen. True, faded corporation-caps and banners are still pinned to the restaurant walls. But they are dead relics-withered blossoms in a spinster's chamber. Of course, Heidelberg is still full of young men who attend lectures at the University. But they are not 'students' in the old-time sense; they are no longer the pampered children of the town, who may do everything, to the everlasting enjoyment of everybody...
...Boston, one Phineas Loring offered a reward of $50 for the best word to take the place of a "spinster," because he felt "convinced that many marriages are effected due to the odium attached to the words 'spinster' an 'old maid.'" The new word is to indicate a "condition of triumph rather than defeat," thereby forestalling such marriages "and so serving humanity...
...Betts, N. A., long a most facile portraitist, achieved the most coveted honor of the show, the Altman Prize of $1,000, with his Elizabeth Betts of Wortham, by whom hangs a tale. This lady was an ancestress of the artist, embalmed in the family archives as a "sad spinster of 21." She quarreled with her lover, who straightway went off to the wars. To regain his love, she made herself a most marvelous frock and went to call on his sister. Whether the strategem succeeded we are not told, but Mr. Betts, aided only by an old print...
...tragedy of starved lives and the futility of effort; told by Mr. Thurston all that is sordid is lost behind the glory of living and the joy that lies therein. Mary Throgmorton, the heroine, is a woman of twenty-seven or eight who has lived all her life a spinster with her spinster sisters, dominated by the memory of the puritanic virtue of her dead mother. Suddenly she comes to the realization that she has failed to live and that she has failed to find the true meaning of life. Virtue and modesty--for these two principles she had passed...