Word: matronly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hymn without looking at the book. She has joined us in singing every Sunday; in fact, almost leads the congregation with her strong, clear soprano. She seemed to enjoy it." ¶The ladies of the Rapid City Fortnightly Club were in a state. "Who speaks first?" sputtered one fluttering matron. "You don't think we ought to call her -your Grace' do you?" "Nonsense, my dear, she'd think you were using her first name." "I must ask her what she thought of Lindy!" Into the midst of the furor walked Mrs. Coolidge. One lady...
Thus, at London last week, famed "militant suffragette" Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, now a venerable steady-going matron, reminisced to newsgatherers. Recalling the heyday of her truculence, just before British women won suffrage (1917), Mrs. Pankhrust said...
...Loved the Ladies is the most horribly acted play in Manhattan. The plot: A maiden, born sub rosa, inherits the millions of her father. Fortunately for her social pretensions, he also leaves letters to prove he was the intermittent paramour of nearly every respected matron in town...
Last week's Christian Century reported the novel method by which 60 plump matrons of Pastor M. B. Lord's Kensington Methodist Church at Berlin, Conn., measured out the substantial token of their esteem for him. 'Midst much giggling and chaffing they passed tape measures about one another's waists. Total was 4,114 inches, an average of 68.5666 inches per matron. Unabashed, they gathered together a cent for each girth-inch; gave the $41.14 to their parson...
...minutes later Mrs. Wightman and Mrs. Marion Zinderstein Jessup lined up against Miss Blake and Miss Edith Sigourney in the doubles event finals. Again Mrs. Wightman, mother of five, added to her laurels. Score: 8-6, 1-6, 6-3. The gallery resounded as the hardy matron, paired with G. Peabody Gardner Jr., walked forth for a third joust-this time the finals of the mixed doubles. Mrs. Wightman still displayed no sign of fatigue; gave Mr. Gardner excellent support; helped earn her third title of the day, defeating two promising youngsters, Miss Sarah Palfrey and Malcolm Hill...