Word: matron
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...Roman matron last week overheard her young son's evening prayer. "God bless mother & father," recited the tot, adding on his own, "and save Giuliano from the police...
Exclaimed one touring American matron: "This is blasphemy!" But Picasso had obviously enjoyed himself and the nursery studies gave Picasso fans more fun than they'd had in a long time...
...legal rights. Now they vote, own property, attend square dances, go to coeducational schools and eagerly discuss the advantages of love matches over the ancient Japanese custom of marriage arranged by parents. They may smoke if they like. Emancipation has not been confined to the young. A middle aged matron in a Fukuoka leather-goods store explained: "Before the war when my husband and I went out I walked behind. Now we walk side by side...
...Formerly," said a brown-kimonoed matron, "the Emperor was the focus of the state. Now where is the focus and what can we strive for? If it is for democracy, what is the exact goal? No one seems able to tell us our objective...
...another to seduce the school's middle-aged housekeeper, Assistant Headmaster Edward Reynolds had cracked, "I'll bet you a pound to a penny that you don't." Another witness said that the children were forever talking about sex in "short Anglo-Saxon words." A former matron at the school admitted having given one girl a contraceptive, though she recalled that Headmaster Copping had bawled...