Word: matronly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Petulant and grumpy at their matron's failure to provide adequate music with their meals, Yale freshmen last week shoved their supper dishes off the tables, bashed glassware, chairs, trays, butter, jams and desserts in all directions, shuffled out into Berkeley Oval and lighted bonfires, scampered into New Haven streets ringing fire alarms, pulling down trolley poles, pushing automobiles from their parking places, nagging, taunting, thumb-nosing at policemen...
...should not be difficult for a committee of ten collectors to gather four or five hundred dollars among the three thousand under graduates of the college. This fund could be deposited in a savings bank and the interest of it could be put in charge of the infirmary matron. It should be attended to now, so that Christmas of 1925 will be provided...
Under an imported ceiling depicting the more unprintable scenes from Ovid, she held "salons" in Old World style-and thither flocked celebrities American and European. She hired a lion from Bostock Circus, took it home for a pet. She mastered jiu jitsu, and many a corpulent matron strove to do likewise to keep up. She admired Sandow, famed strong man, and sat unconcernedly in ' box to see Jim Corbett, at a time when such behavior was, for a lady, unheard of. She hired Paderewski on one occasion, distributing tickets to all who wished to hear him. She sponsored...
FATA MORGANA ? An atmospheric, sporty Hungarian comedy in which a matron gives a youth a lesson in love ?complete in one night...
...question: "Who's boss around here?" THE POTTERS-An American genre study of amusing quality, with oil as the villain. CYRANO DE BERGERAC-Walter Hampden superbly proving that there's no fool like a gallant French fool. FATA MORGANA - An atmospheric, sporty Hungarian comedy in which a matron gives a youth a lesson in love -complete in one night. THE GOOSE HANGS HIGH - The younger generation gets its back up and engagingly passes the lie to much current literature...