Word: matronly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Phase No. 2 commences when, haled into court for petty larceny, she is taken under the wing of a fatuous matron named Mrs. Parker (Katharine Alexander) who thinks Ginger good copy for a proposed book on child-raising. But Ginger, once installed in the matron's smart house, is bad copy indeed. She takes an instant dislike to her beauteous, black-haired benefactress whom she insults with or without provocation. She knocks over vases, upsets dinner with her bad manners, complains that "this dump is an ice box," thinks all the servants are waiters. By the time...
...northern end of the Mohawk Valley at the gateway to the lake country of upper New York is Utica (pop. 100,000), maker of one-third of all the nation's knitted underwear. Remote from a metropolis, Utica society is nothing if not clubby. Rare is the matron who does not belong to one of the town's State-famed musical societies, garden clubs, welfare organizations...
Miss Delafield's homely comedy of quiet laughter and gentle tears chiefly concerns Caroline Allerton (Patricia Collinge), a dowdy little matron on whom is just dawning the appalling realization that life has no more excitement in store for her. Her children are at school, her husband is concerned only with his paper business and the most momentous event of her day is the decision as to whether she will order turbot or sole from the fish man. An almost accidental kiss from her sister's fiance makes her marriage suddenly seem so woefully unromantic that Caroline goes into...
Will the men of Harvard be blind to the logic of Professor Copeland and the embattled goodies? Let them arise in their strength and smite the new-fangled and the plebeian. Let the Kirkland House matron query in a still, small voice. "What, O Harvard, is my rightful name?" And let a chorus of ten thousand throats cry: "GOODY...
...from the dance floor. He wins the battle calmly, sheds a brief tear for his fallen officers, moves on to Paris to outwit Metternich, the Tsar, Blücher and the King of Prussia. All this time, he is carrying on a mild flirtation with a young and flighty matron. When the peace of Europe is attended to, Wellington ends his philanderings, returns to London, gives his Eton sons pats on the head and winds up, as is customary for celebrities in cinema surveys of English history, with a pathetic speech in Parliament...