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Old Maid
An old maid is a spinster. Old maid or Old Maid may also refer to: Games *Old maid (card game), a simple game popular around the world, existing in many variants *, a German card game (variant of ) whose name translates as 'old maid' Film * ''The Old Maid'' (1939 film), an American drama film starring Bette Davis * ''The Old Maid'' (1972 film), a French film by Jean-Pierre Blanc Literature * (novel) or ''The Old Maid'', an 1836 novel by Honoré de Balzac * ''The Old Maid'', a 1924 novella by Edith Wharton that was the basis for the 1935 Broadway play and the 1939 feature film * ''The Old Maid'', a 1935 play by Zoe Akins * ''The Old Maid'', a 1761 play by Arthur Murphy Other uses * ''Catocala badia'' or old maid, an owlet moth species * Old maid, an unpopped kernel in a batch of popped popcorn kernels * ''Old Maid'' (HBC vessel), operated by the HBC from 1928-1930, see Hudson's Bay Company vessels See also * ''The Old Maid and the Thief'', a 1937 opera by Gian Carlo M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spinster
''Spinster'' is a term referring to an unmarried woman who is older than what is perceived as the prime age range during which women usually marry. It can also indicate that a woman is considered unlikely to ever marry. The term originally denoted a woman whose occupation was to spin. A synonymous term is old maid. The closest equivalent term for males is "bachelor" or "confirmed bachelor", but this generally does not carry the same connotations in reference to age and perceived desirability in marriage. Etymology and history Long before the Industrial Age, "the art & calling of being a spinster" denoted girls and women who spun wool. According to the ''Online Etymological Dictionary'', spinning was "commonly done by unmarried women, hence the word came to denote" an unmarried woman in legal documents from the 1600s to the early 1900s, and "by 1719 was being used generically for 'woman still unmarried and beyond the usual age for it'". As a denotation for unmarried women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catocala Badia
''Catocala badia'', the bay underwing, bayberry underwing or old maid, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found from southern Maine and New Hampshire south to New York and Connecticut. The wingspan is 50–60 mm. There is probably one generation per year. The ''badia'' subspecies is listed as a species of special concern in Connecticut. The larvae feed on ''Comptonia peregrina'', ''Myrica cerifera'', ''Myrica gale'', and ''Myrica pensylvanica ''Myrica pensylvanica'', the northern bayberry, is a species of ''Myrica'' native to eastern North America, from Newfoundland west to Ontario and Ohio, and south to North Carolina. It is also classified as ''Morella pensylvanica''. ''Myrica pe ...''. References Subspecies *''Catocala badia badia'' *''Catocala badia coelebs'' Grote, 1874 (Ontario and New Hampshire) badia Moths of North America Moths described in 1866 {{Catocalini-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Maid's Insanity
Erotomania, also known as de Clérambault's Syndrome, named after French psychiatrist Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault, is listed in the DSM-5 as a subtype of a delusional disorder. It is a relatively uncommon paranoid condition that is characterized by an individual's delusions of another person being infatuated with them. This disorder is most often seen (though not exclusively) in female patients who are shy, dependent and sexually inexperienced. The object of the delusion is typically a male who is unattainable due to high social or financial status, marriage or uninterest. The object of obsession may also be imaginary, deceased or someone the patient has never met. Delusions of reference are common, as the erotomanic individual often perceives that they are being sent messages from the secret admirer through innocuous events such as seeing license plates from specific states, but has no proof. Commonly, the onset of erotomania is sudden, and the course is chronic. Presentati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Maid's Bonnets
''Lupinus perennis'' (also wild perennial lupine, wild lupine, sundial lupine, blue lupine, Indian beet, or old maid's bonnets) is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is widespread in the eastern part of the USA (from Texas and Florida to Maine) and Minnesota, Canada (southern Ontario, Newfoundland and Labrador), and on the coasts of the Arctic Ocean, where it grows in sandy areas such as dunes and savannas. Description The leaves are palmately compound with 7–11 leaflets arranged radially. Their stalks are numerous, erect, striated, and slightly pubescent. The leaflets are obovate, with a blunted apex or pointed spear, and sparsely pubescent. Petioles are longer than leaflets; stipules are very small. The inflorescence is long, sparsely flowered, sometimes almost verticillate. Flowers color can be white, blue, purple, or pink, but are most often blue or bluish purple. The calyx is silky, without bractlets; its upper labium with a protuberant basis, is integ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Maid Boogie
"Old Maid Boogie" is a 1947 song by Eddie Vinson Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson (born Edward L. Vinson Jr.; December 18, 1917 – July 2, 1988) was an American jump blues, jazz, bebop and R&B alto saxophonist and blues shouter. He was nicknamed Cleanhead after an incident in which his hair was ... and His Orchestra. The single went to number one on the U.S. R&B chart for two weeks and was Eddie Vinson's most successful of three releases. The B-side of "Old Maid Boogie", a song entitled "Kidney Stew Blues", made it to number five on the R&B chart a few weeks later. See also * List of Billboard number-one R&B singles of the 1940s#1947, List of ''Billboard'' number-one R&B singles of the 1940s References 1947 songs {{1940s-song-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Old Maid And The Thief
''The Old Maid and the Thief'' is a radio opera in one act by Italian-American composer Gian Carlo Menotti. The work uses an English language libretto by the composer which tells a twisted tale of morals and evil womanly power. Menotti writes in the libretto "The devil couldn't do what a woman can- Make a thief out of an honest man." Commissioned by NBC, ''The Old Maid and the Thief'' was one of the earliest operas composed specifically for performance on the radio. Menotti wrote the libretto to ''The Old Maid and the Thief'' himself; initially in Italian but with the intention of having the work translated into English for its premiere. It was the first of several operas in the English language by the young composer who was just 28 years old at the time. He was inspired to write the story of the opera after visiting the family of his partner Samuel Barber. He found that what seemed to be a quaint, cute town actually covered up a plethora of secrets about people and places. Upon t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Maid (HBC Vessel)
An old maid is a spinster. Old maid or Old Maid may also refer to: Games *Old maid (card game), a simple game popular around the world, existing in many variants *, a German card game (variant of ) whose name translates as 'old maid' Film * ''The Old Maid'' (1939 film), an American drama film starring Bette Davis * ''The Old Maid'' (1972 film), a French film by Jean-Pierre Blanc Literature * (novel) or ''The Old Maid'', an 1836 novel by Honoré de Balzac * ''The Old Maid'', a 1924 novella by Edith Wharton that was the basis for the 1935 Broadway play and the 1939 feature film * ''The Old Maid'', a 1935 play by Zoe Akins * ''The Old Maid'', a 1761 play by Arthur Murphy Other uses * '' Catocala badia'' or old maid, an owlet moth species * Old maid, an unpopped kernel in a batch of popped popcorn kernels * ''Old Maid'' (HBC vessel), operated by the HBC from 1928-1930, see Hudson's Bay Company vessels See also * ''The Old Maid and the Thief ''The Old Maid and the Thief ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Popcorn
Popcorn (also called popped corn, popcorns or pop-corn) is a variety of corn kernel which expands and puffs up when heated; the same names also refer to the foodstuff produced by the expansion. A popcorn kernel's strong hull contains the seed's hard, starchy shell endosperm with 14–20% moisture, which turns to steam as the kernel is heated. Pressure from the steam continues to build until the hull ruptures, allowing the kernel to forcefully expand, to 20 to 50 times its original size, and then cool. Some strains of corn ( taxonomized as ''Zea mays'') are cultivated specifically as popping corns. The ''Zea mays'' variety ''everta'', a special kind of flint corn, is the most common of these. Popcorn is one of six major types of corn, which includes dent corn, flint corn, pod corn, flour corn, and sweet corn. History Corn was domesticated about 10,000 years ago, in what is now Mexico. Archaeologists discovered that people have known about popcorn for thousands of yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Murphy (writer)
Arthur Murphy (27 December 1727 – 18 June 1805), also known by the pseudonym Charles Ranger, was an Irish writer. Biography Murphy was born at Cloonyquin, County Roscommon, Ireland, the son of Richard Murphy and Jane French. He studied at the Jesuit-run College of Saint-Omer, France, and was a gifted student of the Latin and Greek classics. He worked as an actor in the theatre, became a barrister, a journalist and finally a (not very original) playwright. He edited '' Gray's Inn Journal'' between 1752 and 1754. As Henry Thrale's oldest and dearest friend, he introduced Samuel Johnson to the Thrales in January 1765. He was appointed Commissioner of Bankruptcy in 1803. Murphy is known for his translations of Tacitus in 1753. They were still published in 1922. He wrote also three biographies: his 1792 '' An Essay on the Life and Genius of Samuel Johnson'', his 1762 '' Fielding's Works'' and his 1801 ''Life of David Garrick''. Murphy is thought to have coined the legal ter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Maid (card Game)
Old Maid is a Victorian card game for two or more players probably deriving from an ancient gambling game in which the loser pays for the drinks. History The rules of the game are first recorded in 1884 by Charles M. Green and referred to in '' Bazaar, Exchange and Mart'' in 1883 as a "newly invented game". However, it may well be much older and derived from the French game of Vieux Garçon, whose rules first appear in 1853, or from the German game of Black Peter whose rules are recorded as early as 1821. All these games are probably ancient and derived from simple gambling games in which the aim was to determine a loser who had to pay for the next round of drinks (c.f. drinking game). They originally employed a pack of 32 or 52 French cards, the queen of diamonds or jack of spades typically being the odd card and the player who is last in and left holding a single queen or jack becoming the "old maid", "", or "Black Peter" depending on the game. The term "old maid" preda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Old Maid (play)
''The Old Maid'' is a 1935 play by American playwright Zoë Akins, adapted from Edith Wharton's 1924 novella of the same name. Directed by Guthrie McClintic and starring Judith Anderson and Helen Menken, the play opened January 7, 1935, at the Empire Theatre on Broadway, and ran for 305 performances. The play was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play was adapted for a 1939 Warner Bros. film starring Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins. References External links * 1946 ''Theatre Guild on the Air'' radio adaptationat Internet Archive The Internet Archive is an American digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, ... 1935 plays Broadway plays Pulitzer Prize for Drama-winning works Plays based on novels Plays set in New York City {{1930s-play-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
