Word: spinster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Same day Bethlehem Steel's President Eugene Gifford Grace was publicized as second-highest-paid U.S. executive, fiery septuagenarian Spinster Zara du Pont, munitions family maverick and Bethlehem stockholder, sued him, the corporation and 17 other Bethlehem officers and directors for $1,000,000, charging wasteful expenditures of that amount for labor-baiting...
...Wilson is a normal and decent person. Mrs. Walton is a grown-up baby; Marge, who has long pursued a young aviator, David Roberts, is pathetically lustful; Gracia is a self-indulgent, sentimentalist, and John Graves is a washed-out pedagogue. Also present are Kate Harris, a scientific spinster of amorous regard, and Murray Bartlett, romantically in love with Gracia, but quite incapable. And David Roberts is there...
...Author. Ellen Glasgow has probably thought more unconventional thoughts than any other gentlewoman in the South. But she has lived a thoroughly conventional spinster's life in the big, grey, brick, Georgian house at No. 1 West Main St., Richmond, Va. Since a heart attack last summer she has scarcely left it. No. 1 is a stately Southern mansion with an iron-fenced front yard, a brick-walled back yard. There are tall magnolias, myrtles, box, ivy, lots of flowers. Ellen's father, who was manager of the Confederacy's only heavy-calibre cannon foundry, bought...
...middle '20s, Arthur was president and Aroline had passed on Gove leadership to her daughter Lydia, a tall (6 ft. 2 in.), big-boned, scrappy spinster who became the Scarlett O'Hara of patent medicines. Lydia was impatient with Pinkham advertising. She wanted to pay out over 50% of gross sales for old-fashioned testimonial advertising. Arthur and his brothers (Vice President Daniel, Secretary Charles) wanted a more sophisticated modern campaign with expenditures not over 30%. With the board of directors deadlocked (three Pinkhams, three Goves), Lydia locked company securities in a safe deposit box, ran off with...
...Emily Posts of domestic art and decoration are two white-haired, spinster sisters, Harriet and Vetta Goldstein. They have spent their lives teaching in the home economics department of the University of Minnesota, have written a book together (Art in Everyday Life) which has long been a bible to home economics classes from Maine to the Middle West and has been translated into Chinese. Their book tells how to choose colors in rugs and draperies, how to arrange furniture in a room, how to balance knick-knacks on a mantelpiece and food on a plate, how to dress tastefully...