Word: matriarchate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subservience, at any rate, is assured. The photograph, p. 24, of Matriarch Mary with Queen Elizabeth "well in hand" is the most expressive picture of the week. To see it is to understand at a glance the devious story of Edward's unprecedented behavior. In "most vulgar" American, or in any language, that expression on the Queen Mother's face spells "Meddlesome Interferiority." My only consolation is that TIME'S preview has cleared up much of the "Mystery of the Coronation." If Americans do not boycott the ceremonies, then they deserve the low opinion that Mary, churchy...
MURDER OF A MATRIARCH-Hugh Austin-Crime Club...
...store in San Francisco, dinner in the hotel's dining room. When she was younger she played a shrewd game of poker. Every April her 50-odd children, grandchildren and in-laws assemble for her birthday party, to which the St. Francis contributes a tremendous cake.* This April Matriarch Magnin will have a particularly happy birthday: in its 1935 annual report published last week, Magnin's showed sales of $8,900,000 and profits of $372,000-best year since...
Died. Mrs. Mary Hone Ogden Adams, 92, relict of Charles Francis, grandson of John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the U. S.; in Concord, Mass. Matriarch of the famed family, she had eleven grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, was the aunt of onetime Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams...
SHINING AND FREE-G. B. Stern-Knopf ($2.50). Further adventures of The Matriarch...