Word: matron
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...Said a salesclerk: "They were stunned. They just stood there with their mouths open. They didn't believe it. One woman thought it was an old movie being rerun." In Atlanta, the Rev. Martin Luther King Sr., father of the Negro leader, got a call from a white matron after the U.N. riots: "Can't you do something about these people?" she demanded. "They're ruining our country...
Midgie Purvis (by Mary Chase) presents Tallulah Bankhead as an oddball society matron who masquerades as a very old lady. Young-hearted Midgie Purvis has long embarrassed her family as a kind of card-of-all-work, and when her son begs that she meet his fiancee and her family in decorous matronly style, she decamps instead. Taking rooms behind a candy store, she turns into a frowsy, fumbly baby sitter who suddenly goes on the loose with her three young charges, causing nocturnal havoc as she careens about and more havoc when it comes...
Most women in his audiences responded with happy giggles, but a few dissenting voices were heard. In Djakarta a pretty girl sniffed: "I can get a husband without Sukarno's help." A disillusioned matron observed, "Sukarno doesn't know his audience. The majority of Indonesians still have arranged marriages, so husbands are no problem. And I, for one, don't think a modern kitchen comes with Socialism." But there was strong evidence last week that Sukarno does know his audience, and especially his women. A poll was conducted to determine "the most popular man" among Indonesians...
Stern lets his camera roam, picking up the boats reflected in weird patterns on the rippling water of Newport Harbor, a sedate matron startled by the sudden appearance of an amateur brass combo, or a bartender's fruitless battle with explosive beer bottles. The music is well-integrated throughout, reflecting the tasteful editing of Stern and Aram Avakian. The cumulative effect is excellent...
...from the high-level gossip, she gives a picture of the astonishing toughness of the British aristocracy. For all the physical grace and fragility that made her famous as an amateur actress playing madonna and nun in Max Reinhardt's The Miracle, in time of war no patrician matron of Imperial Rome could have been more intransigent, bellicose and stoic. Despite invincible fear of air travel, she flew with Duff in countless trips to zones of war, sometimes "hard-arse" (Lady Diana's phrase). She endured inconceivable official tedium, the horrors of the Indian...