Word: matronic
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...matron service in J entry of Dunster, for instance-provided to attend to pressing and sewing needs-is wholly foreign to undergraduates today but not so much to the classmates of '21who actually had daily maid service as students in the College...
...wedding party included sister Julie Eisenhower as matron of honor and the bridegroom's sister, Mary Ann Cex, in the role of maid of honor...
...fact, it will be the most innovative of any White House wedding. Then, to Purcell's Trumpet Tune and Air, Tricia, in her Priscilla of Boston gown, will climb the curving south stairs on Eddie's arm, followed by the rest of the bridal party, including Matron of Honor Julie Eisenhower...
Long before Anna's real estate and construction company, Beni Immobili Italia, last year joined SACIE, a larger rival in the building business, the 60-year-old Milan matron had become rejected-and feared-by captains of Italian industry. As far back as 1956, Alberto Pirelli, the tire magnate, chose Anna to put up his empire's 32-story headquarters in Milan. "I look at the price and the quality," he said, "not the sex." Three years ago she initiated a move by major shareholders of La Centrale, a leading holding company, to take power away from...
...Lent." In Royal Air Force parlance, Gan is an "unaccompanied post"-the only one in the R.A.F.-and that means unaccompanied by wives or girl friends, because there is no room for them on the island. There are 650 men on Gan, but only one female, an Irish matron sent out by the Women's Royal Volunteer Service "to give the lads someone to tell their problems to." They would burn her ears off if they...