Word: matriarchic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...King & Matriarch. Author Ferber manipulates her old patterns with practiced ease. Vaughan Melendy, rich and rugged lumber-salmon king, is the spectacular Northwest, and vice versa. "Born into this gargantuan northwest region of giant forests, limitless waters, vast mountains, fertile valleys, he himself blended into the lavish picture and was one with it. . . . He digested it like the benevolent giant...
Apart from the fact that Kelly looks like he's dying to break into some of his very excellent dancing, and Deanna into a tender encore of the very hummable "Always," "Christmas Holiday" has its tense and effective moments. Gale Sondergaard delivers a spine-tingling performance as the aristocratic matriarch of an old New Orleans family, trying to keep her bad little boy from going around murdering people and otherwise disturbing the Creole peace. Richard Whorf portrays the liquor-loving newspaperman in just the right tones of big-time tenderness...
Painter Brett dropped her British title when she became a U.S. citizen (1938). She now lives in a one-room adobe studio in art-conscious Taos, dines once a week with her great friend Frieda (von Richthofen) Lawrence, sees much of Taos Art Matriarch Mabel Dodge Luhan and her Pueblo Indian husband, Tony...
...Margaret Chung (see cut), matriarch and "mother" to some 700 Allied pilots who wear the jade Buddha tiepins of the Organization of Bastards (because they are not her legitimate sons), to 400 Kiwis-good Bastard material, but non-flyers-(named after the kiwi, a bird which cannot fly), to 300-odd Golden Dolphins, a society of submariners, first became a "mother" to seven American aviators who tried to volunteer for service with the Chinese Air Force in 1931. A top-notch San Francisco surgeon, she has flown thousands of miles to give her medical skill to her "sons," makes...
...Matriarch of social Washington is Mrs. J. Borden ("Daisy") Harriman, former Envoy to Norway, whose small parties are still so choice that even Donald Nelson accepts invitations to them. Highly prized also, particularly by socially minded newcomers to Washington, are the cozy little dinners given by "Princess Alice" Longworth...