Word: matronhood
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...their husbands ("Cuddling? There's hell on earth. How do you know when you're done?") A gay male art pornographer and a lesbian ex-con, gurus to dimwit straights, induce a conservative presidential hopeful to striptease, his wife to pose naked and their daughter to leave Junior League matronhood for lesbian passion. All their problems are solved at once. It seems we have seen this play before: back then it was called Hair, or maybe Oh! Calcutta...
...writes for the Boston Globe, at a professional tennis tournament at Longwood last summer. It was the same day that a letter had appeared on the Globe's editorial page. somewhat of a billet-doux to Collins from Mrs. J. D. Garrott. It was a masterpiece of outraged matronhood...
...Boat Club, the Cygnettes Ball and a round of parties encompassing Royal Ascot Week. It was a list to make a shopgirl's head spin. But for a princess it meant mostly that her holiday, such as it was, was over. With sister Elizabeth safely settled in matronhood, Margaret is the most eligible partygoer in Britain; it is her chore to play to the hilt the ingenue lead in an elaborate comedy of manners...
History. Mrs. Margaret Sanger* invented the phrase "birth control" in her The Woman Rebel (1914). But Mrs. Annie Besant, who has since abandoned the social rebelling of her young matronhood for theosophy and the patronage of Jiddu Krishnamurti (TIME, July 12, 1926), really started this purely modern movement. That was in 1877 when she was prosecuted in England for selling pamphlets on contraceptives. English wives theretofore knew nothing of them; English husbands regarded them as exotic refinements of bawdiness. No English wives who bore children on the duodecimal system learned that any protection existed. They asked their gossips, they told...
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