Word: spinster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Serge Alexandrovitch Koussevitzky, 73, longtime conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra; and Olga Naumoff, 46, spinster niece of his second wife (who died in 1942), and his secretary for 18 years; near Lenox, Mass...
...stops Ella from marrying a poet and forces her into an alliance with a worthless schoolteacher who is already married. Out of this comes an illegitimate child, who grows up and stages her own unhappy revolt against Spinster Rose. Her fate is her mother's: she is left with a child by a country dolt. This is proof, says one character, that "it is often more dangerous to break a convention than...
...concerns the twisted relationship of two sisters, Rose and Ella Venn. The hatred between them, writes Author Cary, "had a very long history, almost as long as their devotion." Rose, "an obstinate old spinster, thin and black as a kitchen poker," has all the self-righteous cruelty of a woman whose happiness has been given up for others...
...which had long closed its ears to the small talk, big commercials and occasional records of the jockeys, had signed famed Jazzman Paul Whiteman for an hour spin five days a week. Mutual last week opposed him with an older spinster: Martin Block. From his four sponsors, Whiteman will gross $208,000 a year; Block will get $312,000, plus a couple of hundred thousand more from Manhattan's WNEW and Los Angeles' KFWB (altogether, disc jockeying's top dollar...
Another British vicar, the Rev. W. G. Hargrave Thomas of Needham Market, contributed a little shocker of his own: no "social stigma" should be pinned on spinster schoolmarms, he thought, if they felt like having a baby...